After years in development limbo, trudging between different studio homes and finding then losing filmmakers and cast members, thriller Triple Frontier is finally getting ready to shoot. Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund and Adria Arjona are the latest additions.
Ben Affleck and Charlie Hunnam remain attached – though the former briefly stepped away from the film as he dealt with sobriety and other personal issues – with director JC Chandor the man who has wrangled it to this point with a little financial help from Netflix.
Originated by Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, the title refers to the film's original setting, the previously dangerous border zone area between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where the Iguazu and Parana rivers converge, and where loyalties are tested when a group of friends unite to take down a drug lord. Chandor has had to make some adjustments, as the area is no longer quite such the hotbed for trouble and is now known more for tourism than terror.
Casey Affleck, Mahershala Ali, Tom Hardy, Tom Hanks, Channing Tatum, Mark Wahlberg and Johnny Depp have all been linked with the film as it struggled through a difficult birth, and now Chandor will shoot in Hawaii, Colombia and California starting next week. Honestly, someone should start work now on the documentary on the making of this one before a frame of film is shot.
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