Peter Buchman, the writer behind Steven Soderbergh’s Che Guevara epic, “Che,” is set to adapt the bestselling mafia book, “Making Jack Falcone,” for Paramount with Soderbergh executive producing. The film will tell the story of Joaquin “Jack” Garcia, a Cuban-American FBI agent who had for shifting ethnicity’s as needed and successfully went undercover in the Gambino crime family as Jack Falcone.
Despite the tacky parallels to the Mike Newell directed “Donnie Brasco,” which told the true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone as he went undercover in the Bonnano crime family, we are pretty excited about this news.
Previous to “Che” Buchman wrote “Jurassic Park III’ and the children’s fantasy tale “Eragon,” which we assume was more of a financial move than artistic, or at least we hope that is the case given his great research and depth in the Cuban guerrilla epic story.