Channing Tatum is to delve into the murky world of drugs cartels in the film adaptation of Melissa Del Bosque’s upcoming novel Bloodlines.
Not only is Tatum set to star in the film but he will be taking to the producer’s chair under his Free Association production company alongside Michael Parets and Fifty Shades of Grey producer Michael De Luca through Michael De Luca Productions.
Bloodlines synopsis reads: Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead, he’s desk-bound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Treviño, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico’s most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Treviño was laundering money through American quarter horse racing. If this was true, it offered a rookie like Lawson the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the cartel. Lawson teams up with a more experienced agent, Alma Perez, and, taking on impossible odds, sets out to take down one of the world’s most fearsome drug lords.
An Investigative reporter, Del Bosque takes her extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players and turns more than three years of research and her decades of reporting on Mexico and the border into a gripping narrative about greed and corruption. Bloodlines offers us an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Zetas and US federal agencies, and opens a new vista onto the changing nature of the drug war and its global expansion.”
Straight Outta Compton’s Jonathan Herman – who was nominated for an Academy Award – will adapt the screenplay. Tatum can next be seen in the upcoming Logan Lucky alongside Adam Driver and Daniel Craig and The Kingsman Sequel, The Golden Circle.
