Jake Gyllenhaal got some of the best notices of his career for the just released Nightcrawler (and not solely for his dramatic weight loss). It now looks like he’s interested in staying in morally ambiguous territory with The Man Who Made It Snow according to Deadline.
The film will reunite him with director Antoine Fuqua, who have only just finished working together on the upcoming movie Southpaw.
Although the title on the new film make it sound like this will be a sweet, charming tale, the ‘Snow’ of the title has a double meaning. The Man Who Made It Snow tells the true story of Max Mermelstein, ‘a Jewish hotel engineer who transformed Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise’. However he later turned against Escobar and acted as a witness for the US government.
The plan is to shoot the movie late next year, once the full funding is in place.
It seems like we’ve been waiting an awful long time for The Equalizer. After all, it went into production over a year ago and the first image arrived last December. However we’ll be able to finally see Denzel Washington’s take on the 80s TV series later this month.
The first time Denzel Washington teamed up with director Antoine Fuqua, with Training Day, he won an Oscar. Their latest collaboration, the upcoming The Equalizer, is also expected to be a big success.
Southpaw started out as a vehicle for Eminem and it was sold as a vaguely metaphorical looking at his life through boxing. While that idea fell through the film lived on Eminem’s departure, and last November Jake Gyllenhaal attached himself to the lead role.
It’s increasingly common for studios to start work on sequels before a first film is out, but it’s still pretty rare to do that with a thriller, especially a full seven months before the film hits cinemas and the studio can tell if it’s actually going to be a hit. However Sony is confident enough about The Equalizer that they’re already developing a sequel, hiring Richard Wenk (The Equalizer, The Expendables 2) to pen a script, according to 
Southpaw was originally developed as an acting vehicle for Eminem, which was designed to tell a story that was metaphorically autobiographical of the rapper. However he’s moves on but the film is still alive, which the latest news, via 
After years in development, the movie version of The Equalizer is finally moving forward. Denzel Washington, Chloe Moretz and Marton Csokas are already signed up to sign, and now