EXCLUSIVE: Lengthy-in-the-works docuseries Boston George, about drug trafficker and smuggler George Jacob Jung, is about to premiere on streaming service Fandor on July 22.
The five-part sequence includes a first rate chunk of interviews with Johnny Depp, who portrayed the late Jung in 2001 movie Blow. This would be the first new movie or TV content material that includes Depp to be launched since his prolonged U.S trial in opposition to former spouse Amber Heard.
Described by Depp as “one in every of my favourite individuals immediately” and as “a really charming outlaw”, Boston George explores Jung’s lifetime of intercourse, medicine, rock ‘n’ roll and lawbreaking. Acquaintances from all walks of life reunite with Jung — who filmed the sequence earlier than he handed away final 12 months — to inform the narrative, together with Depp, creator Bruce Porter, associate Ronda Clay Spinello, good friend Waino “Tuna” Tuominen (portrayed by Ethan Suplee in Blow) and former undercover DEA agent Tom Tinnerington and DEA Particular Agent Mike McManus, accountable for Jung’s bust.
Above is a brand new trailer for the sequence and beneath is a behind-the-scenes clip during which Depp presents Jung a cellular phone to allow them to keep in contact (joking that he’ll ship Jung “the weirdest images”).
Following its premiere, Fandor plans to drop one episode per week every Friday. Cinedigm will make every episode accessible on TVOD the day after it premieres.
Jung, nicknamed Boston George and El Americano, was a serious determine within the cocaine commerce within the U.S. within the Seventies and early Eighties. He and his associate Carlos Chief smuggled cocaine into the U.S. for the Colombian Medellin Cartel. He was sentenced to 70 years in jail in 1994 on conspiracy costs, however was launched in 2014.
His story was recounted in Bruce Porter’s New York Instances bestseller Blow: How a Small City Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Misplaced It All.
Work started on the sequence a number of years in the past however Jung’s passing in 2021 and the pandemic slowed progress.
Stated Boston George producer Georgette Angelos: “Our time spent with George was so impactful, not solely as filmmakers, however as people. An eternal impression we got here to understand all through the interview course of was a theme for anybody who crossed George’s path. I do know the viewers will really feel the identical manner after they watch the sequence. It was an honor to have been part of this undertaking, and to observe all of it come to fruition, telling the entire story of the final true outlaw.”
“As a longtime fan of the film Blow, it was a tremendous alternative to take a seat down with Boston George and listen to these recollections firsthand,” added producer Chris Chesson. “This sequence will give the viewers an actual really feel of what it was like for George from each the previous and current elements of his life that are actually vastly totally different. He left a long-lasting impression on everybody he met together with me and I’m fortunate to have been capable of name George Jung a good friend.”
“Boston George was the last word cult icon, as well-known as he was notorious,” commented Erick Opeka, President & Chief Technique Officer at Cinedigm. “Georgette and Chris have masterfully given Boston George followers an up-close-and-personal and uncensored have a look at the years following Blow and George’s launch from jail and we couldn’t be extra excited to current George’s story to audiences.”
