Radius-TWC has released a new trailer for the upcoming drama Escobar: Paradise Lost, which stars Benicio Del Toro as infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. The film is directorial debut of Andrea Di Stefano and also stars Josh Hutcherson and Claudia Traisac.
Escobar: Paradise Lost originally premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and opens in theaters January 16th.
Told from the perspective of Nick (Josh Hutcherson), an innocent surfer from Canada, Escobar: Paradise Lost unfolds during the final years of Escobar’s reign. Nick and his brother Dylan (Brady Corbet) set up a modest surfing retreat near Medellin, where Nick meets the woman of his dreams, Maria (Claudia Traisac), who is busy campaigning for her politician uncle. That uncle turns out to be Pablo (Academy Award-winner Benicio del Toro), who invites Nick to a party at his “cottage,” a sprawling, Xanadu-like jungle fortress. When he hears of the trouble Nick and Dylan are having with some local thugs, Pablo vows to “take care of it.” The thugs turn up dead, and suddenly Nick finds himself immersed in a world of wild extravagance, corruption and bloodshed – one he will find nearly impossible to escape.
