Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley will star in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s drug-trafficking drama “Queen of the South.”

Elizabeth Avellan and Sandra Condito will produce the adaptation of Spanish writer Arturo Perez-Reverte’s novel about a Mexican woman turned Spanish drug lord (Mendes) out to avenge her boyfriend’s murder. Hartnett plays a Marine who gets involved in her business, and Kingsley plays a Russian businessman.

The project, once set up at Warner Independent, is now being independently financed by Winchester Capital in conjunction with Origen PC and Plural Entertainment. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.

The leads are repped by CAA; Mendes is additionally repped by Management 360.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

‘It’s in the vein of ‘Sin City’ or something like that, where the world doesn’t look like reality at all,’ actor says from Sundance.
By Larry Carroll

PARK CITY, Utah — Much like Brad Pitt and Robert Redford before him, Josh Hartnett is becoming increasingly intent on lending his leading-man looks to the edgy, artistic scripts that are his true passion. Now, following his efforts that helped get “Sin City” made, the 29-year-old star is involved in what could be cinema’s next great leap forward.

“I’m going to Romania to shoot this film called ‘Bunraku,’ ” Hartnett revealed to MTV News, invoking a title based on a 400-year-old form of Japanese puppet theater. “All the cast isn’t set yet, but it’s going to be a lot of really interesting actors, in this weird kind of papier-mâché world.”

As Hartnett’s fans remember, the heartthrob was approached in January 2003 by Robert Rodriguez, who was intent on showing “Sin City” creator Frank Miller that Hollywood could film his material without sacrificing its quality. After lending his time for nothing more than a test, Hartnett’s scene got the film made and eventually was reused as the opening take of the revolutionary 2005 flick. Now, Hartnett is once again breaking new visual territory with “Bunraku” — a trippy film with a puppetry-meets-Origami look, which the actor compares to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope,” in that it will play out (or at least appear to play out) in one long, unedited take.
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