Will Joe Carnahan Shoot Killing Pablo Before White Jazz?

With both George Clooney and Chris Pine leaving Joe Carnahan’s big screen adaptation of White Jazz, what is the writer/director going to do? Will he be making his Killing Pablo movie instead? Well, Carnahan has let us in on his next move. He’s currently considering the Caranaha’s Pablo Escobar biopic, which was greenlit this month after years of development. Joe has written on his blog,

“White Jazz is something, that as much as it kills me to say this, can wait.. What can’t is PABLO since another version of that story (albeit inferior) is being prepped right now. The only downside would be Bardem, who just committed to a film and therefore wouldn’t be available for KP. There is, however another suggestion that’s just as thrilling and somebody who had already expressed an earlier interest in this script. If he were to agree to play Pablo, I might have to pull up stakes and go make that film, toot sweet. I don’t want to get beat to the punch on something that I put that much time and effort into. I didn’t slave over the NARC script like I did over KILLING PABLO. It’s a high class problem I’ve got but it’s still a f*cking problem.”

“Anybody familiar with the state of screenplays in town will tell you, WJ is one of the best out there. That much I know. What makes that advantageous, is if this ridiculous writer’s strike does in fact drop, we can press on making that movie, sans rewrite.”

“The KP situation would also allow me to go absolutely nuts with the casting. That script has got no shortage of fans and the great thing is, a lot of those roles you can board (schedule) in and out so I can load some badass cameos in that film.”

See, I would much prefer to see White Jazz, with George Clooney or not! The conceptual photos for Jazz that Carnahan released looked awesome. He’s obviously spent a lot of time on Jazz and now is the time to execute.

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