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Caroline's Casting Couch: Pick Your Pablo!

Javier Bardem, Adrian Grenier Anita Bugge/WireImage.com, Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage.com

Oh, Bob Yari, it's okay to come right out and say it. You're a producer, so it's hard for you to be bold-faced honest. So, here's the deal: Yari Film Group is finally going ahead with the Pablo Escobar project Killing Pablo. This project—about the takedown of one of the world's most formidable drug lords—has stalled more times than my very first car. And it's finally happening.

Why now, you ask?

Well, it's true that an ideal cast of big-talent boys is coming together. Javier Bardem will portray Escobar. And Christian Bale is all but set to be the military man hot on his tail.

But it's also true that this project is coming together right after season four of HBO's Entourage, which revolved around the filming of an Escobar biopic.

Obviously, the timing to make things happen in real life is perfect, what with HBO having provided a great (i.e., free!) marketing campaign. Millions of young men and women have relished in watching Adrian Grenier put on a facial fat suit to portray Escobar in the make-believe Medellín. Hell, a lot of Entourage viewers will probably go see this movie because they expect to see Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) make a cameo as a quacky dealer.

In any case, the movie looks promising. The real movie, I mean, not Medellín. But for kicks, let's ask ourselves a serious question.

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