"Queen of the South" for Josh!

[Jocasta]

A new project and working with Sir Ben again!


Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley will topline helmer Jonathan Jakubowicz's "Queen of the South" (La reina del sur), an adaptation of the bestseller by Spanish author-journo Arturo Perez Reverte.

Elizabeth Avellan and Sandra Condito will produce pic while Winchester Capital, Spain's Origen and Plural Entertainment will serve as executive producers.

Avellan, Condito and Jakubowicz are working under their new banner, Tres Malandros.

Jakubowicz, an L.A.-based Venezuelan filmmaker penned the screenplay with Albert Torres.

Story tracks a Mexican woman who escapes to Spain after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Teresa becomes the reigning drug smuggler in Spain, bent on avenging her lover.

The female-driven actioner is set to shoot in Mexico and Spain starting September, according to Condito.

Jean-Luc De Fanti will exec produce with Plural's Daniel Cebrian, Origen's Antonio Cardenal and L.A.-based producer Sergio Aguero.

Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment is handling international sales and will take the pic to the Cannes market this month.

Pic was originally set at Warner Independent where it went into turnaround.

Source.

Has anyone read the novel? I can't wait to find out more about Josh's character.

Hartnett plays a Marine who gets involved in her business, and Kingsley plays a Russian businessman.

[Plastic Flute]

Brilliant Find P. Our boy truley loves Sir Ben

[Jocasta]

And Sir Ben must love Josh too!

[Plastic Flute]

Josh is going full blast. Love it.

[Soss]

Gosh yes! He must be well pleased with himself. Great find kate well done xx

[Plastic Flute]

A Marine

[Jocasta]

Ha! Do we smell a hair cut for Mr Hartnett?!

I just found this about the novel on amazon;

Spanning 12 years and introducing a host of intriguing, scary characters, from Teresa's drug-addicted prison comrade to her former assassin turned bodyguard, the novel tells the gripping tale of "a woman thriving in a world of dangerous men."

That doesn't fit the Marine character but I guess we'll have to wait.

[Italia6]

Originally Posted by Jocasta

And Sir Ben must love Josh too!

sure :-)

Kate thanks for finding this new.

I don't read this book but If I'll find them in library I read :-)

[annieHARTNETT]

wow great find.
Marine yum! aww no hair cut. I dont like Josh with a buzz cut.
Anyways hahaha yea kate, Sir Ben does like Josh.
Not a fan of Eva Mendes.. but oh well
Josh really is trying all sorts of things, now a Spanish-ish film

[aloha]

Hartnett plays a Marine

oh holy yes. Josh again in a uniform? can´t wait for that.
and another movie with Sir ben, that must be a great project.
wow and shooting starts already in September? Josh is really busy as it seems.

[jarias]

OMG I´m so happy Josh working with Jonathan Jakubowicz a Venezuelan director

Josh in the role of Santiago Fisterra, is a marine that ends tangled in the business of the traffic of drugs in the zone of the Mediterranean. He is a smuggler of snuff and hashish between Morocco and Spain through the Strait of Gibraltar.

[aloha]

wow, is that from the novel? that sounds great. thanks jarias

[Italia6]

i love Josh in uniform :-)
By the way I've read that shooting start in September this year and all movie will be shoot in Spain and Mexico :-)

[aloha]

that´s right. I wonder where in Spain they will shoot it. and where in Mexico.

[Italia6]

me too but I suppose that soon we can be read more details about this. :-)

[annieHARTNETT]

btw found this on justjared

Eva, 34, will join Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s drug-trafficking drama Queen of the South.
The film is about a Mexican woman turned Spanish drug lord (Eva) out to avenge her boyfriend’s murder. Hartnett plays a Marine who gets involved in her business, and Kingsley plays a Russian businessman.

i wonder how big Josh's role is

[aloha]

thanks for that annie!
there are a lot of news about that on the net now

[Jocasta]

Originally Posted by jarias

OMG I´m so happy Josh working with Jonathan Jakubowicz a Venezuelan director

Josh in the role of Santiago Fisterra, is a marine that ends tangled in the business of the traffic of drugs in the zone of the Mediterranean. He is a smuggler of snuff and hashish between Morocco and Spain through the Strait of Gibraltar.

Thanks Jarias... Josh's role sounds exciting.

And it's cool he's working with Elizabeth Avellan again.

[Soss]

Yippy! Get so excitted with his new pojects!! He is getting offered some great parts, involving some very talented people in the industry. Good for him, he deserves it and more, for beliving in himself!
I'll watch E! News today, incase its on there, often it is.

Thanks again girls xx

[aloha]

it´s great he always does so much totally different kind of movies