#Pablo escobar netflix series#
While some officials feared the series would portray the country negatively, Triana said resistance to filmed depictions of Colombia's violent history has eased in part because of wildly popular soap operas known as "narconovelas" that present an unvarnished view of the drug wars. The administration pays for up to 40 percent of filming costs to foreign producers who hire local crews and spend at least $600,000 in the country. Netflix, with local production partner Dynamo, got the big subsidy to film under an initiative Santos' government launched in 2013 to market Colombia as South America's premier shooting location. Triana said that no matter where the series was made it would have presented the same image of Colombia, so it was preferable to have it filmed here to make foreign members of the cast and crew more sensitive to the toll Escobar's bloodbath had on society. But Santos urged Padilha not to romanticize a criminal who promoted himself as a Colombian Robin Hood despite ordering thousands of people killed, from presidential candidates to passengers on a commercial jetliner he had blown up.
#Pablo escobar netflix movie#
The president, whose family brought the Cinemark movie chain to Colombia, immediately embraced the project, said Claudia Triana, head of the state-funded Proimagenes film promotion agency. So much so that cinema-loving President Juan Manuel Santos agreed to pick up $2 million in production costs so Netflix could film in the country.īecause of the lingering sensitivities about the bad reputation Escobar gave Colombia, Netflix executives and Padilha flew to Bogota last year to meet with Santos before filming.
But as memories of Escobar's terror campaign fade, and with the homicide rate at a decade low, Colombians are starting to view their violent past more dispassionately.
The biopic promises to be an authentic portrayal of Escobar, so it's only natural that Brazilian director and executive producer Jose Padilha chose to film the 10-episode series in Medellin, the murder capital of the world during the drug kingpin's heyday in the 1980s.įilming the series here would have been unthinkable a few years ago, with Colombians still blaming Escobar for their country's hard-to-shake association with drug trafficking. More than two decades after he was gunned down, his vast wealth, megalomania and ruthless violence still mesmerize, as evidenced by the attention surrounding Netflix's upcoming series "Narcos" about the cartel boss. That is what we tell people like this if they come to Colombia.BOGOTA, Colombia - When it comes to drug lords, there's no matching Pablo Escobar. Their mothers should have left them in the womb. But they don’t know life and would never dare to survive in the jungle of Medellin or Colombia. “They have their phones and nice products. I don’t play around with these people in Silicon Valley,” he said. “You see, we own all the trademarks to all of our names and also for the Narcos brand. Gaviria even left a menacing threat to the Netflix brass. If we don’t receive it, we will close their little show.” Right now, we are in discussions with them through our attorneys Browne George Ross LLP to obtain our $1 billion payment. “They sent us a long letter to threaten us. “Netflix are scared,” he told the news outlet. Now, the 71-year-old living descendant of arguably the most notorious drug dealer in history is suing Netflix for allegedly using his brother’s name and story without his permission.Īccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Escobar’s former chief accountant and right-hand-man is seeking up to $1 billion from the internet-television giant for its portrayal of Escobar in the hit crime-drama series “Narcos.” MIAMI - Pablo Escobar’s brother Robert de Jesus Escobar Gaviria offered his counsel to Netflix last week, saying the studio should employ hitmen to protect its staff.
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