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AMC Networks is teaming up with producer Scott Stuber to develop Down by the River, a series adaptation of Charles Bowden’s non-fiction book exploring the complexities of the drug trade. Peter Landesman is attached to write and direct.
Down by the River is a gripping family saga: When the brother of DEA Dallas chief Phil Jordan is murdered, the investigation reveals a sprawling web of corruption that crosses borders and defies institutions. Set largely in high-society Dallas—where oil money, politics, religion, and crime collide—the case forces Jordan to revisit the streets, cross the border, and resurrect a long-buried alter ego he thought was gone for good.
In addition to Down by the River (published by Simon & Schuster in 2002), veteran journalist Charles Bowden authored numerous non-fiction works, including Blood Orchid, Trust Me, Desierto, The Sonoran Desert, Frog Mountain Blues, and Killing the Hidden Waters. A recipient of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, Bowden passed away in 2014.
Director and screenwriter Peter Landesman also began his career as a journalist—as well as a painter and novelist. As a filmmaker, Landesman wrote and directed Parkland and Concussion (starring Will Smith), and wrote Kill the Messenger (starring Jeremy Renner) and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (starring Oprah Winfrey).
Here is the goodreads synopsis of "Down by the River" by Charles Bowden:
Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money.
Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. It is the story of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U.S. government, of how major financial institutions were fattened on the drug industry, and how the governments of the U.S. and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this happens down by the river, where the public fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is a remarkable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family.
Source: Deadline
Down by the River is a gripping family saga: When the brother of DEA Dallas chief Phil Jordan is murdered, the investigation reveals a sprawling web of corruption that crosses borders and defies institutions. Set largely in high-society Dallas—where oil money, politics, religion, and crime collide—the case forces Jordan to revisit the streets, cross the border, and resurrect a long-buried alter ego he thought was gone for good.
In addition to Down by the River (published by Simon & Schuster in 2002), veteran journalist Charles Bowden authored numerous non-fiction works, including Blood Orchid, Trust Me, Desierto, The Sonoran Desert, Frog Mountain Blues, and Killing the Hidden Waters. A recipient of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, Bowden passed away in 2014.
Director and screenwriter Peter Landesman also began his career as a journalist—as well as a painter and novelist. As a filmmaker, Landesman wrote and directed Parkland and Concussion (starring Will Smith), and wrote Kill the Messenger (starring Jeremy Renner) and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (starring Oprah Winfrey).
Here is the goodreads synopsis of "Down by the River" by Charles Bowden:
Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money.
Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. It is the story of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U.S. government, of how major financial institutions were fattened on the drug industry, and how the governments of the U.S. and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this happens down by the river, where the public fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is a remarkable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family.
Source: Deadline
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