Doc Thriller ‘Killing Escobar,’ Sold by Abacus Media Rights, Sells Robustly Worldwide (EXCLUSIVE)

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Abacus Media Rights has clinched rapid sales in more than half the world’s major territories on “Killing Escobar,” proving the enduring market appeal of one of Latin America’s most powerful IPs, Pa…

Abacus Media Rights has clinched rapid sales in more than half the world’s major territories on “Killing Escobar,” proving the enduring market appeal of one of Latin America’s most powerful IPs, Pablo Escobar – if producers find a new and unique way into his story.

Narrated by McAleese himself, and driven by cinema-standard reconstruction of the actual nerve-biting mission, “Killing Escobar” mixes a combat survival thriller with McAleese’s highly personal redemption story and a singular vision of Escobar as both a callous murderer, deep-pocketed eccentric and viable military target, McAleese maintains three decades later in an interview for the film.

World premiering at this year’s late winter Glasgow Film Festival, “Killing Escobar” was commissioned by BBC Scotland, and received major production investment from AMR and Screen Scotland. Whitney recently scored a best director nomination from BAFTA Scotland. In later life, he has struggled to come to terms with a professional life dedicated in part to killing people, as he himself argues in “Killing Escobar.” “I was a bit nervous the first time I killed anybody,” he remembers. “But the actual act of killing someone when you’re on mission is partly why you’ve chosen to do [this] with your life,” he adds, with bracing candor.

 

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