Everyone’s favorite bad man Bryan Cranston is set take on the criminal underworld once more. The actor is attached to Brad Furman’s (THE LINCOLN LAWYER) THE INFILTRATOR, about real-life federal agent Robert Mazur’s years undercover. Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to corrupt bankers and mob leaders as well as infiltrating the Medellín cartel. This would lead to the arrests of more than 40 major criminals.
The new film will be based on Mazur’s own autobiography. Here’s the official synopsis for the book:
Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe. These men and women control multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking empires, running their organizations like public companies. Accountants, attorneys, and financial advisors, their roots run deep in their communities, and they are laundering billions of dollars a year, manipulating complex international finance systems to serve drug lords, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. In 1987, Mazur began infiltrating BCCI, bankers behind the Medellín cartel. He meticulously gathered evidence for years until, during a fake wedding, federal agents arrested over 40 high-ranking criminals, who were all found guilty and sent to prison. Never before told, this is the incredible, true story of how he did it.
That sounds crazy! This could make for a very entertaining movie with Cranston leading; I will have to check this book out too. THE INFILTRATOR is scheduled to begin shooting in January 2015 with no release date has been set. Director Brad Furman could use a hit considering his last effort, RUNNER RUNNER, was a critical and financial letdown.
Hear the real-life Robert Mazur explain what he did in his own words:
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