Emmy-winning “The Handmaid’s Tale” director Reed Morano is in negotiations to helm the Jennifer Lopez-led drug lord drama “The Godmother” for STXfilms.
Lopez will portray Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco in a story that follows her life as she outsmarted and outhustled the men around her to rise from an impoverished childhood in Colombia to become one of the world’s biggest drug lords who was reportedly worth more than $2 billion. Blanco was ultimately murdered in Colombia in 2012.
Oscar-winning “The Departed” and “Kingdom of Heaven” scribe William Monahan will re-write an earlier script by Regina Corrado and Terence Winter. Lopez will produce along with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, and Julie Yorn.
She isn’t the only celebrated female filmmaker setting up new projects today. Kasi Lemmons (“Black Nativity,” “Talk to Me”) has locked in her next directorial effort – an adaptation of Maaza Mengiste’s “The Shadow King” for Atlas Entertainment.
Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, the best-selling historical fiction novel tells the story of the Ethiopian women soldiers who were left out of the historical record of World War II. Charles Roven and Richard Suckleproduce.
