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‘Queen of the South’ Showrunner Ben Lobato Boards Fabula-Fremantle Mexico Project ‘Hot Sur’ (EXCLUSIVE)


‘An Unknown Enemy’ helmer Gabriel Ripstein will direct the cliché-busting thriller ‘Hot Sur,’ to. be presented at Content Americas.

Ben Lobato, co-showrunner of Alice Braga-starrer “Queen of the South,” a top-three Nielsen ratings performer for USA Network, has boarded “Hot Sur,” a fast-moving thriller set up at Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula and at Fremantle Mexico, the burgeoning Mexican production hub of the global production-distribution giant. In a world of prejudice, murder and corruption, María Paz refuses to be a victim, rising like a Phoenix from the ashes of her American dream, she takes matters into her own hands,” Lobato told Variety. Producing Michel Franco’s Cannes winner “Chronic,” Ripstein made his directorial debut writing and directing the “understated, astutely gauged“ “600 Miles,” Variety said in its review.

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