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Monday, January 16, 2017

Filmmaker claims he turned down Chapo over safety concerns

Posted by Mica for Borderland Beat Hollywood Reporter

“I said, ‘Tell Mr. Chapo, first of all, good job on your escape’.... I will not be making a film".


Filmmaker Peter Berg has abandoned plans to make a movie about drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman for fear his Los Angeles boxing gym could be targeted by Latino thugs.

The crime boss was recaptured in January, 2016, after spending months on the run in the jungles of Mexico following an escape from prison.

During his bid for freedom, El Chapo met with actor Sean Penn and agreed to be the subject of a Rolling Stone magazine interview, while making it clear he was interested in a movie about his life.
And now Deepwater Horizon director Berg has revealed he almost took on the project.

“I got out of the El Chapo business,” the filmmaker, who owns the Wild Card West boxing gym, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We have a lot of Hispanic fighters from Mexico. Two days after his (El Chapo’s) escape, two of my fighters came in and asked if they could talk to me, and then told me that El Chapo wanted to meet with me.

“That’s when I realized, ‘Hollywood thinks it’s a cool idea to make a movie’. (But) this is a very dangerous group of individuals. And this is my gym, where I work out and train, and my child comes in.


“I said, ‘Tell Mr. Chapo, first of all, good job on your escape’. I will not be making a film. I wish him all the best.”

64 comments:

  1. Man you lost you're opportunity of your life I'm mean from Honduras all the way To Russia Who wouldn't want to meet with the baddest and most wanted man in the world like come on dude if I had the chance to meet the brave big balls Sinaloense Capo I wouldn't have give it a second thought mate

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    1. I can tell you are a girl :)

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    2. Don't lie your from Sinaloa! Tonto..

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    3. Why would you lower yourself to meet feces that happens to be famous?

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    4. 1:05 let's go meet El Chapo and find out what is his wild magnetism all about, we may even get to have his baby.

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    5. 11:17 Disgusting.

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  2. U shouldn't fear El chapo Guzman has a white guy who live in the state of Sinaloa for 10 years brother I can tell you mr.guzman doesn't mess with innocent people
    Lots of southern Indian Mexicans will claim he does but it only because they are balls lickers of a rival Sinaloa cartel so yeah let the haters hate

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    1. 6:01 is also 5:55 lol a Sinaloa guy who is acting Australian and American, just look at the time frame and the dumb comments lmao what a lame vato..hahaha

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    2. Chaps and his boys are ver nice people but most importantly, his mom and his sisters are born again Christians.

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    3. He sigle handedly fucked up the existing treaties that each cartel had. When the Guadalajara Cartel was split treaties still existed. Chapo comes into the picture and destroyed them all.

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    4. Your probably from Sonora or Sinaloa. "Indians from the south" that's what Mexicans call Mexicans even tough we were all Indians. Tonto! Nice try...

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    5. If people claimed he killed innocent civillians, why would they be nuthuggers to sinaloa enemies, BLO, Los Zetas, New Generation have all slaughtered innocents without a doubt?

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    6. BS the indians in Northern Mexico, like the Tarahumara, would refute your claim. Besides your run on sentances and grammer like using the letter H has if was silent makes u suspicious

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    7. I live in tamaulipas I get a little scarce. My family moved to U S
      I am the only one left. Go home at night lock down and turn off all the lights in am nam vet and fit right in. The war still here. But always drunk and leave me alone

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    8. 7:31 yes, there is a war there in tamamulipas, but i'd like to know about your personal experiences on that other war, the good and the bad memories, any pride left? Anybody you look up to? Any dirty linen?

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  3. Sure buddy, the corn man from my block was contacted to play el mayo (swear he is mayos twin).but Turned the offer down as well.

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  4. Berg needs attendtion, bringing up old news already spoken about

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  5. Sure someone will be willing to make the move. People have always been intrigued with crime . Moreover with the criminal empire the Sinaloa cartel established is definitely a money maker at box office. Question is what is chapo cut for production of such. It's his name brand like Trump brand. Both businessmen

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    1. 7:36 la chapa is poorer, but he hasn't gone bankrupt even one time, la cbapa has not robbed his investors either, and doesn't claim falsely to be a billionaire nor is he running for puboic office as one and filling the swamp with CROOK-O-DILS.
      --el chapo's daddy did not gift him with millions of dollars.

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    2. La chapa has never been to russia, and was not deferred 5 times from the Vietnam war draft because of his corns.

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  6. If he was worried about his gym he wouldn't of mentioned it.. theirs something weird about this... smells like there was never a plan for a movie' but why fake it?

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    1. Yea why mention it and burn your own fighters at the same time. Smells fake to me

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  7. 2 of my fighters come in and tell me el chapo wants to meet? Who are your fighters?

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    1. Why do you want to know?

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    2. Does Chavez Jr still train at wild card? He used to party with chino anthrax

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    3. the fighters are Hispanic / Mexican of course they know of have contact with el chapo duh

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    4. @11:17
      "El gallito de oro" and "manitas de piedra".

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    5. El canelo and chavez jr...DESDE pomona

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    6. Obviously Canelo

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    7. 5:48 ya ponte a trabajar en la mission o holt.

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  8. bullshit story that guy gave (mr. berg) jajaa

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  9. Wow! What where the chances morals or ethics would have played a part of making that decision???

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  10. Tony Toncas from CDS got caught in Chihuahua this weekend according to Diario de Juarez. The main provider of drugs in the state for street vendors in the city of Chihuahua and lower half of the state at least.

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  11. This is a dekoy. Sean pean is C.I.A spy/actor.

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    1. We all know that about Sean Penn. just like Dennis Rodham when he went to North Korea. As someone else said duh

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  12. Pete Berg I'm sure is telling the truth but my question is why would you take it public. He still makes great movies, doesn't need money or fame.

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    1. Great movies do not exist anymore, it is all churros with plenty of special effects, sound and visual bs. It is all the Web now.
      --La chapa sure made and spent his own money, not the public treasury, nuff said...

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    2. Your delusional.

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    3. 12:01 who, amá?

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  13. Sounds like some bullshit to me.

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  14. http://www.digitalguerrero.com.mx/instante/dejan-camioneta-con-seis-cuerpos-desmembrados-en-chilpancingo/

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    1. @3:54 Thanks again Tu Fren. We would never be able to find some of these stories without our readers help.

      If you would be interested in becoming a "guest reporter" send me an email and lets talk about it. My email address is at the top of the main page (allend4bb@gmail.com)

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  15. Exactly who are your fighters

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  16. What a load of b.s....He is only the director! The producers are the ones that get stuff done. Plus mark Wahlberg has done movies with shAddy sources!!! Look it up......Hollywood is full of junkies.....

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  17. Latino thugs? Wtf. Wow, that is something Donald would say.

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    1. Well, with all due respect, how else should one refer to career criminals affiliated with the Surenos and employed by the cartels? I've spent quite some time in that very gym, which is located on Santa Monica and Vine in West Hollywood. Make no mistake about it, the men who control the underworld in that neighborhood are very accurately described as "latino thugs". Please, enlighten me as to what you would refer to these ruthless criminals as?

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    2. 5:49 . You just said Donald was spot on. If its white murders killers and RAPIST it would be white thugs . Same difference if they were black . You guys sound like he is acting like it is a ethical decision . I think he is afraid some evil psychopath or psychopaths could target him for the way Chapo or some of the many minions or opponents are depicted . A very legitimate concern when you consider the pea brain mentality of these kind of thugs . When making a movie about a active organization that engages in mass murder and murder on a daily basis., not to mention countless other atrocities , one should consider the possibilities . Really Marc Walberg works with people that are responsible for the death of thousands of people ? Come on now get real .That's the difference in comparing them with Chapo . It wouldn't be fair to the world to do a story on Chapo and letting him tell it his way . Any other way could be a death sentence . There are a lot more people in this story than Chapo . Anything other than the truth would be junk fiction .

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    3. Guillermo Padrés Sr and Jr are business partners of donal' trump jr who of course has no money of his own, it is all daddy's, but how about other "mexican casino owners"? Manlio fabio beltrones, jorge hank rohn, manuel cavazos lerma,

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  18. Canelo vs Chavez who y'all got?

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  19. He just wants attention. Typical Hollywood

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  20. To late to get any fame I don't think any one will hear about el chapo anytime soon rumors here in Juarez is he died of hypothermia 3 days before him getting his extra blanket !!!?

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  21. He didn't want to get snitched on by chapo. smart man, everyone knows he snitches big time. He could have been charged for not reporting chapo to the authrities if they wanted too. Too much trouble imo

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  22. Lol ... doubtful. Thank god the world was spared of another Peter Berg movie.

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    1. 5:04 well, mister Berg may not "need the job" that much AND may be working on other more worthy projects...
      How about you?
      I am not a fan, and I never knew of him or his work, how about u

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  23. Good job on your escape. Really. What a pussy.

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  24. I am white not all mexicans r bad
    A lot of great people

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    1. 7:26 A GÜEBOO!
      ahi tá cabrones we have fans, mexicans are good guys, that why they is 30 million of us in the US, and counting, we even have coyotes domesticados.

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  25. Chapo is telling his lawyer he is being sexually abused in Jail! I wonder if he'd show that in the movies! Look up narcoguerra_mx on insta...

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  26. @Mica Would you send me an email so I can get your email address to send you an email.

    The other adminstrator; DD
    allend4bb@gmail.com

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  27. Good job on your escape. I will not be making a film, but... my colleagues and their lawyers will be in contact.. wink...wink

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  28. i wonder since he is showing fear is Chapo will lean on him and threaten the gym if he don't do the movie lol

    ~~~el spaceio~~~

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