Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Oliver Stone is attached to direct and produce “Savages,” a drug cartel thriller.
The film, based on the forthcoming book by Don Winslow is about “two pals from Laguna Beach who share the same girlfriend and a thriving business growing and distributing the best-quality pot on the planet. When they resist being muscled by a Mexican drug cartel, the girl is kidnapped and the ransom is every cent they’ve made for the last five years. They agree to pay but hatch an alternate plan to get her back, get revenge, and then get lost.”
Stone has put his own money into the project in an effort to help secure financing from the studios, and he hopes to make it his follow up to “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” There is no word yet on a cast, but we imagine details will start coming as Stone starts putting the pieces in place and shops the project around town.