Canana Options Movie Makeover of Alfredo Corchado's 'Midnight in Mexico' John Hopewell - Variety
go to original December 11, 2013

Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness by Alfredo Corchado Check it out on Amazon.com

Plunging once more into Mexico’s heart of darkness – its rampant drug cartel-fuelled extortion, torture, corruption and daily murders which have left 80,000 dead – Mexico and L.A.-based Canana has optioned big-screen rights to Alfredo Corchado’s “Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness.”

Canana founder and partner Pablo Cruz will produce the movie makeover for Canana, one of Latin America’s top independent production-distribution companies, which was founded by Cruz, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.

The Mexico Bureau Chief of the Dallas Morning News and a Nieman 2009 Fellow at Harvard, Corchado wrote “Midnight in Mexico” from dramatic personal experience. Covering Mexico’s drug wars, he has suffered four death threats. One came from the Zetas, the para-military death squads split off from the Gulf Cartel. On that occasion, racing a 24-hour-stay-of-execution, Corchado set off into the Mexican country to try to trace down the source of his death sentence.

Rights for “Midnight in Mexico” were optioned just before Mexico’s Guadalajara Book Fair, where movie deals are escalating. “Midnight” will be spoken mostly in English, with Spanish for characters living in Mexico.

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