EXCLUSIVE: Cuban-American drug kingpin Willy Falcon is lastly poised to inform the story of how he constructed the billion-dollar cocaine empire Los Muchachos. Leisure A.R.E.U., the corporate began by Ozzie Areu after he left as longtime president of Tyler Perry Studios, has acquired the unique life rights and cooperation of Falcon.
Areu has additionally acquired rights to the T.J. English guide The Final Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America. The package deal is seven-figures if the movie will get made.
It offers an insider’s view of 1 model of the chase for the American Dream, set in opposition to a backdrop of energy boat racing and the lavish way of life of the prosperous, funded by a coke empire credited with serving to to construct the Miami skyline, a enterprise headed by Falcon, his brother Gustavo and associate Sal Magluta.
“It is a story that’s captivated audiences for many years. Now, in legendary kind, Willy Falcon is opening up concerning the life he lived,” stated Areu. “I’m already in talks with among the trade’s high writers to present these tales the caliber of writing they deserve – from anti-Castro alliances to secret offers with Noriega, Escobar, and even the CIA. That is the unfiltered reality.”
Areu plans to inform the story in a number of platform incarnations with a function, TV collection, docuseries and podcast in improvement. English will host the podcast. All centered round Falcon himself.
“I’ve waited a long time for this second as a result of I would like folks to lastly hear the entire reality,” Falcon stated in a press release. “It’s time to share my story, my legacy – nothing is off-limits. This goes past the rumors and what’s been written within the press.”
Falcon, who served practically three a long time behind bars, is able to break his silence. It’s one half crime saga and one half redemptive journey. We all know from Scarface, Goodfellas and different drug tales that constructing an empire across the white powder hardly ever brings a contented ending.
Per the guide, Falcon was a part of the early efforts to overthrow and kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, getting his begin in smuggling cocaine to assist the CIA elevate cash to accumulate weapons through the Iran-Contra Affair. He grew right into a coke kingpin whose improvements in importation and distribution modified that scurrilous recreation.
Falcon and his companions had been the primary U.S. smugglers to buy product straight from the Medellin cartel, and the primary to move hundreds of kilos by air, sea and land. When U.S. Customs shut down their route by the Bahamas (the place they owned the federal government and army), they had been the primary to ship Colombian cocaine by Mexico, the place they opened smuggling routes after assembly with and paying off high-ranking officers within the Mexican army in addition to partnering with Felix Gallardo of the Guadalajara Cartel.
These two younger Cuban exiles – highschool dropouts – had been among the many first to launder their large earnings by banks in Panama, utilizing as their personal banker President Manuel Noriega’s lawyer – till Noriega was deposed by the U.S. authorities and their personal money-launderer succeeded Noriega as president.
Falcon served 27 years in jail for misdeeds which are proper out of Miami Vice, the lavish life fueled with a seedy drug underbelly.
“The time has come to deliver the high-octane story of Willy Falcon and Los Muchachos from web page to display,” stated English. “This isn’t only a wild story of extra and ambition — it’s a traditionally explosive saga about how an unlawful product — cocaine — remodeled a nation. With Ozzie Areu and his staff on the helm, I’ve little question this content material will blow minds and enthrall audiences worldwide. Now in the appropriate palms, it gained’t simply entertain — it is going to redefine true-crime storytelling.”
