Apologizing for Pablo Escobar.
There are multiple John DeLorean movies in the works. "Wall Street 2" has wrapped. And now another, much more serious ghost of the '80s has come to haunt us: Pablo Escobar. The Colombian drug lord -- whose cartel at one point controlled 80% of the global cocaine market and whose personal wealth of $25 billion had him listed as Forbes' seventh richest man of 1989 -- has been the potential fuel of many films over the years. There was a Timbaland attempt to outdo "Scarface", an Antoine Fuqua movie produced by (of course) Oliver Stone and the rock bottom alternative of Joe Carnahan's "Killing Pablo" -- not to mention "Entourage"'s fictional "Medellín." Now there's a documentary, "Sins of My Father," for which Escobar's son outed himself from years of anonymity. Quietly living for years in Buenos Aires under a different name, working as an architect, the newly-christened Sebastian Marroquin though...
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