The Handmaid's Tale director Reed Morano is in talks to direct Jennifer Lopez in The Godmother, a movie based on the true-life Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco, for STXfilms, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Lopez will star as Blanco and produce alongside Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina and Julie Yorn. The screenplay for The Godmother was written by Regina Corrado and Terence Winter, and William Monahan is set to do a rewrite.
The Godmother is set to chronicle the notorious drug lord Blanco, who outsmarted rivals as she rose from an impoverished childhood in Colombia to become a key figurehead in Miami's drug trade wars.
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