Michael Cuesta, who has helmed episodes of Homelandand Dexter, is directing.
Messenger tells the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb who through his reporting exposed the CIA’s involvement in helping Nicaragua’s Contra rebels import cocaine into California during the 1980s. The agency then tried to discredit him, which ultimately led to his “committing suicide,” though with two bullets to his head.
Vega will play the girlfriend of a wealthy dealer who is in jail and hopes that Webb can get him out.
Production is expected to start in Atlanta this August.
Paz Vega is killing the messenger in Atlanta… Production has gotten underway in Georgia on the true-life dramatic thriller Kill the Messenger, which stars the 37-year-old Spanish actress. Directed by Michael Cuesta, the film stars Jeremy Renner as Gary Webb, the real-life reporter for The San Jose Mercury-News. In the…
Michael Cuesta is ready to kill the messenger… The first trailer for Jeremy Renner's Kill the Messenger, helmed by the 50-year-old television and film director, borrows the visual style, tone and ripped-from-the-headlines subject material of American Hustle. Kill the Messenger is a dramatization of journalist Gary Webb's investigation into a CIA conspiracy…
Michael Cuesta may have found his leading lady… Rosemarie DeWitt is in final talks to take on the female lead role in Kill the Messenger, which will be directed by the 49-year-old Latino film and television director. Kill the Messenger is a true-story thriller about journalist Gary Webb, a San…
