EXCLUSIVE : Entertainment A.R.E.U. principal and former Tyler Perry Studios president Ozzie Areu has secured funding for his planned adaptations of The Last Kilo: Willy and the Cocaine Empire that Seduced America . Stepping up is FilmHedge founder/CEO Jon Gosier , who’ll fund to the tune of $50 million, planned adaptations of the story of infamous Cuban drug kingpin Willy Falcon . T.J. English wrote the book.

Last June, Areu made a deal that will be 7-figures if the film gets made, for the book, life rights and cooperation of the Cuban criminal known as Los Muchachos. Falcon, who served three decades behind bars and then largely disappeared, has plenty of stories to tell. They include running a successful cartel with a minimum of violence, to anti-Castro alliances to secret dea

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