Clive Owen Goes to Cartagena

Clive Owen, thinking about what to pack for Colombia. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Clive Owen is set to star in Cartagena, a thriller set in Colombia.

Here’s the Cartagena story as THR describes it:

“Cartagena” centers on an undercover agent who gets caught in a complex plot and must elude drug dealers and international agents if he hopes to survive. The project is named for a city on Colombia’s northern coast that has a colorful history featuring wars, robust economic activity and tourist development.

This isn’t the only Colombia set pic in the works–studios have been falling all over themselves trying to put together movies based on last summer’s real life rescue of a group of hostages from the Colombian rebel group FARC.

Mark Cuban’s 2929 Productions is producing. Michael Ross, who wrote Turistas and is doing a rewrite for an English language remake of the Icelandic film Jar City, will write the Cartagena screenplay.

Clive Owen will next be seen in The International and The Boys Are Back. He’s an attractive guy, he has presence, and he adds a little something different to every movie he’s in. That said, I don’t know if that’s enough to gt me to see Cartagena as described above. I mean, the previously “not done to death” setting aside, it sounds like the plot of a pretty generic thriller. Hopefully they’ll find a way to bring something extra to it.