May 1, 2020 — Jennifer Lopez’s “Godmother” project is finally getting off the ground. The superstar actress-singer announced her plans to make a movie based on the life of Colombian queenpin Griselda (The Godmother) Blanco in 2016, but since her well-received roles in the 2019 film, Hustlers, and 2018’s Second Act and her lauded performance at halftime of February’s Super Bowl shot her back into the spotlight, Lopez’s career his hot again.
Griselda Blanco was the most powerful female crime lord in America in the 1970s and 80s, running the Medellin drug cartel operations in the United States. She was at the forefront of the cocaine avalanche that washed over the country in the Miami Vice era. Working mainly out of the South Florida area, she had satellite crews in New York and Los Angeles. The DEA suspects she ordered thousands of murders, including a number of her husbands and lovers, and romanced both men and women.
This week, it was reported in the Hollywood trades that STXfilms and Lopez have come together to produce the Blanco project and Reed Moreno, the directorial force behind Hulu’s hit The Handmaid’s Tale, is the process of negotiating a contract to direct. Lopes originally set up the project at HBO four years, however development lagged.
Last fall, Lopez headlined, Hustlers, a film adapted from a New York Magazine’s story about strippers at Scores who scam Wall Street brokers and corporate CEO’s by drugging them and stealing their credit card numbers. Produced by Annapurna Pictures and Gloria Sanchez Productions, Hustlers was distributed by STXfilms and made $158,000,000 against $20,000,000 budget.
Catherine Zeta-Jones played Griselda Blanco in the 2017 Lifetime original movie titled Cocaine Godmother. Salma Hayek portrayed a character loosely-inspired by Blanco in Oliver Stone’s Savages back in 2012. Just two months after Savages hit theaters in July, Blanco was slain in Colombia in a drive-by shooting. She was 69 and an estimated net-worth in the billions.
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