Bryan Cranston to star in The Infiltrator

Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is to star in The Infiltrator, a thriller based on the true story of federal agent Robert Mazur who went undercover to infiltrate Colombia’s mafia and helped collapse one of the world’s biggest privately held banks.  

The film is a passion project of director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and was first reported by ScreenDaily at the American Film Market (AFM) in 2012. Relativity International will present the film to distributors at this year’s AFM.

It marks the first on slate of seven projects from Good Films and will be produced by the company’s founder and former BBC Films exec, Miriam Segal.

Principal photography is scheduled to begin January 2015 on location in London, Paris and Florida.

Adapted for the screen by Ellen Brown Furman from Mazur’s autobiography of the same name, Cranston will play customs agent Robert Mazur and his undercover alias, Bob Musella.

Cranston’s involvement in the film stems from a relationship that he developed with the director while shooting The Lincoln Lawyer.

The actor, who has won a Golden Globe and Emmys for his role in TV series Breaking Bad, has most recently been seen in Godzilla and will star as the eponymous screenwriter in upcoming biopic Trumbo.

Good Films, which has a slate of projects with budgets ranging from $12m to $40m, is also going into production on The Postcard Killings with Everado Gout attached to direct. The film is based on crime novel The Postcard Killers, jointly written by bestselling authors James Patterson and Liza Marklund.

Titles in development include Invisible from playwright Tena Štivičić; When A Crocodile Eats the Sun from Peter Godwin; What I Loved from author Siri Hustvedt; LAbyrinth, based on Randall Sullivan’s investigative book; and Ellen Brown Furman’s 52 Windows.