Sony Pictures has finally obtained the film rights to the book Hunting El Chapo: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American lawman Who Captured the World’s Most-Wanted Drug Lord, and Michael Bay is on their potential list of directors.
Now that he’s finished with Transformers, Michael Bay is in search of his next project, which may come in the form of a movie about elusive drug kingpin El Chapo.
This actually makes two El Chapo-themed movies in the works, along with Ridley Scott’s The Cartel for Fox, which is fiction modeled after the El Chapo saga.
El Chapo is currently facing 17 charges of drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping, and money laundering.