Exclusive: Exile Content has teamed with Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender to acquire the rights to Azam Ahmed’s New York Times article, “He Was One of Mexico’s Deadliest Assassins. Then He Turned on His Cartel”. Exile and Bender are currently developing the story into a film or series with Ahmed and Caitlin Roper as producers.
Ahmed co-wrote the article with Paulina Villegas which was published in December 2019. It tells the story of a man who became one of the deadliest assassins in Mexico who eventually taken into custody via a makeshift witness protection program. He eventually fell back into the deadly trade. “This will never end, no matter what I do,” he said in the New York Times story. “But I just won’t be a part of it anymore.”
This is not the first story from Ahmed that has been acquired to be developed into a project.
Ahmed co-wrote the article with Paulina Villegas which was published in December 2019. It tells the story of a man who became one of the deadliest assassins in Mexico who eventually taken into custody via a makeshift witness protection program. He eventually fell back into the deadly trade. “This will never end, no matter what I do,” he said in the New York Times story. “But I just won’t be a part of it anymore.”
This is not the first story from Ahmed that has been acquired to be developed into a project.
- 1/4/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Blumhouse has acquired the rights to The New York Times’ story about Miriam Rodríguez, the Mexican mother who fearlessly tracked down the kidnappers who abducted and murdered her daughter, Karen.
Rodriguez — who went on to become a prominent human rights activist, helping to imprison 10 members of the local cartel in San Fernando — was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day in 2017. Blumhouse won the rights to the Times story, titled “She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One,” which spawned an immediate bidding war after it was published on Dec. 13.
Azam Ahmed, the story’s writer, will produce the project alongside Caitlin Roper, the Nyt’s executive producer for scripted projects, and Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Ahmed has served as The New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean since 2015. In 2019, Ahmed reported a series on the homicide crisis in Latin America,...
Rodriguez — who went on to become a prominent human rights activist, helping to imprison 10 members of the local cartel in San Fernando — was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day in 2017. Blumhouse won the rights to the Times story, titled “She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One,” which spawned an immediate bidding war after it was published on Dec. 13.
Azam Ahmed, the story’s writer, will produce the project alongside Caitlin Roper, the Nyt’s executive producer for scripted projects, and Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Ahmed has served as The New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean since 2015. In 2019, Ahmed reported a series on the homicide crisis in Latin America,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
After a fierce bidding war, Blumhouse will team up with the New York Times to produce a project about Azam Ahmed’s gripping story on Miriam Rodriguez, the Mexican mother who tracked down the crew that abducted and murdered her daughter in 2014.
Miriam Rodriguez helped imprison 10 members of the local cartel in the Northern town of San Fernando, Mexico. She was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day, 2017.
Caitlin Roper is producing for the New York Times alongside Ahmed, and Jason Blum is producing for Blumhouse.
Ahmed’s story, titled “She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One,” incited a bidding war immediately after it was published on Dec. 13, with multiple production companies and studios chasing the screen rights. It is unclear whether Blumhouse’s project will be adapted into a feature film or a limited series.
Ahmed has been the Times’ bureau chief for Mexico,...
Miriam Rodriguez helped imprison 10 members of the local cartel in the Northern town of San Fernando, Mexico. She was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day, 2017.
Caitlin Roper is producing for the New York Times alongside Ahmed, and Jason Blum is producing for Blumhouse.
Ahmed’s story, titled “She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One,” incited a bidding war immediately after it was published on Dec. 13, with multiple production companies and studios chasing the screen rights. It is unclear whether Blumhouse’s project will be adapted into a feature film or a limited series.
Ahmed has been the Times’ bureau chief for Mexico,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
In a very competitive situation. Blumhouse has won the screen rights to a Dec. 13 New York Times story which chronicled one desperate mother’s revenge spree in Mexico, when she avenged her daughter’s murder by taking on the drug cartels and tracking down the perpetrators by herself. She saw ten of them apprehended by police before she was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day, 2017.
Nyt will produce with Blumhouse, and Caitlin Roper, Nyt’s executive producer for scripted projects, is producing alongside the article’s writer, Azam Ahmed, and Jason Blum. Anonymous Content represented the article in the sale process. The story, titled She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One, ignited a heated bidding immediately after it was published December 15. Blumhouse is said to have prevailed over 16 production companies and studios that chased it.
Ahmed is Nyt bureau chief for Mexico,...
Nyt will produce with Blumhouse, and Caitlin Roper, Nyt’s executive producer for scripted projects, is producing alongside the article’s writer, Azam Ahmed, and Jason Blum. Anonymous Content represented the article in the sale process. The story, titled She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One, ignited a heated bidding immediately after it was published December 15. Blumhouse is said to have prevailed over 16 production companies and studios that chased it.
Ahmed is Nyt bureau chief for Mexico,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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