Frank Gastambide in the land of Narcos: pictures from the filming of his action comedy in the footsteps of Pablo Escobar

A few months ago, we announced that Franck Gastambide was going to fly to Colombia to shoot his fourth feature, Medellin, about the kidnapping of a young Frenchman named Juthur, who leaves him in the wake of Pablo Escobar, whose big brother will try to save him from his clutches. Dangerous drugs.

An action-comedy produced by the Amazon platform, the actor mainly boxed in the “Barrio Escobar”, a neighborhood built by a drug lord that has never before hosted a film, as the old Caira explains to our brute colleagues who came. visit him.

“This neighborhood is still very much steeped in what Escobar was and what he left behind. They have an admiration for it that remains completely intact, which is not the case at all in the rest of the country! And everything happens in a really amazing atmosphere“, he also points out.

and add:From the beginning, we had fears to say, “How will we be accepted in this area?”. Especially since the movie isn’t necessarily a glorification of Escobar, it’s a movie that speaks to exactly how one can sometimes be fascinated by “bad guys.”“

But in the end, the team’s worries quickly disappeared. “They welcome us very warmly, we feel that it makes them happy, makes their neighborhood come alive“, assures us Frank Gastambid, who also employed many local residents, very interested in this filming.

Brut journalists brought back from their trip many images of Franck Gastambide behind his camera, but also shots of action sequences that promise to be worthy of films like Fast & Furious.

Chases on motorcycles, in cars, stunts on rooftops, explosions, the use of drones… Medellin is the most ambitious project of its director to date, who speaks of it as “An emotionally powerful adventure“and”great love“.

See you in 2023 on Prime Video to find out.