Jeremy Renner Ready To ‘Kill The Messenger’ In Film About CIA-Smeared Journo Gary Webb

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Paz Vega Joins Jeremy Renner in Kill the Messenger
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
June 24, 2013
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Paz Vega is set to join Jeremy Renner in the upcoming Kill the Messenger, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter.

The film is based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb, a San Jose Mercury News reporter who allegedly committed suicide after being the target of a smear campaign when he linked the CIA to a scheme to arm Contra rebels in Nicaragua and import cocaine into California.

Peter Landesman wrote the screenplay, based on the two books the studio optioned: "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion," by Webb, and Nick Schou's "Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb."

Vega's credits include Sex and Lucia and Cat Run. She can be seen in the upcoming Grace of Monaco.

Michael Cuesta is attached to direct Kill the Messenger with Scott Stuber producing.






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Paz Vega is joining Jeremy Renner in Kill the Messenger, Focus Features’ adaptation of the true-life drama book by Nick Schou.
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Michael Cuesta, who has helmed episodes of Homeland and Dexter, is directing the picture, which is being produced by Scott Stuber and Renner.

Messenger tells the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb who through his reporting exposed the CIA’s involvement in helping Nicaragua's Contra rebels import cocaine into California during the 1980s. The agency then tried to discredit him, which ultimately led to his “committing suicide,” though with two bullets to his head.

Vega will play the girlfriend of a wealthy dealer who is in jail and hopes that Webb can get him out.

The production plans an August start in Atlanta.

Vega will appear in Grace of Monaco as legendary opera singer Maria Callas opposite Nicole Kidman and recently wrapped Paul W.S. Anderson's historical drama Pompeii. She is repped by WME and Radius Entertainment.