EXCLUSIVE: Al Pacino, Diego Boneta, Xolo Maridueña, KiKi Layne, Alexander Ludwig, Ron Livingston, Kendrick Sampson, Nicole Beharie, Logan Marshall Inexperienced and Titus Welliver will star in Killing Castro. Eif Rivera will direct from a script by Leon Hendrix, Thomas DeGrezia, and Colin Bateman. This might be Rivera’s first function movie.
The movie might be produced by Romulus Leisure’s Brad Feinstein, together with Christina Weiss Lurie of Fourth and Twenty-Eight Movies. Romulus may also be financing the movie. Principal Pictures will happen in Newark, NJ.
Primarily based on true occasions, the movie is about in 1960, shortly after successful the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro travels to New York Metropolis to ship his first speech to the United Nations. When met with hostility at his authentic lodge, Castro meets Malcolm X who invitations him to remain at famed Resort Theresa in Harlem. With the eyes of the world now watching, a rookie undercover FBI agent initially assigned to analyze Malcolm X, all of a sudden turns into the FBI’s Most worthy asset, and is tasked with preserving Castro from being eradicated by the CIA and the Italian mafia, by any means vital.
John Takis, Rudy Langlais, Josh Glick, Boneta, Sam Slater, Leon Hendrix, Colin Bateman, Piers Tempest, Joseph Ingrassia and Nick Ham will exec produce.
“I’m honored to be a part of telling such an vital story that could be a piece of historical past which was largely unknown,” stated Feinstein. “Killing Castro completely encapsulates the kind of tales we try to inform at Romulus Leisure, tales that do greater than entertain audiences, however create thought frightening various content material that carry to mild the complexities of actual life. We’re wanting ahead to working with the unimaginable forged led by the inimitable Eif Rivera.”
Rivera is broadly recognized for steering BMF, and TV reveals together with Power & Energy Guide III: Elevating Kanan.
“I’m excited to carry to life this compelling true story with the assistance of my exceptional forged and formidable producing group at Romulus Leisure,” Rivera stated.
