Entourage, Scarface, and Medellin

One of my favorite television shows is the HBO series Entourage. Entourage centers around Vincent Chase, an A-list actor in Hollywood who, with his friends Eric, Turtle, Drama, and Ari navigate the high points and pitfalls of modern Hollywood fame. Starting in Season 3 of Entourage Vince gets approached to do a movie called Medellin, about Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Vince would play Escobar, and potentially this would be his greatest role ever. After many initial problems with pre-production for the film the director, Paul Haggis, drops out. Vince and his manager and best friend Eric get indy director Billy Walsh to direct the film and he agrees. People in the show compared Medellin to Scarface saying that like Scarface it will be a box office bomb. Vince however refuses to believe that stating that Scarface was ahead of its time and Medellin is not. Vince uses all his money and sells his house and cars to be able to film Medellin After the filming of Medellin t is shown at the Cannes Film Festival and, predictably, bombs. As somebody who wants to make a living in the movie industry there can be nothing worse than putting all your money and work ethic into one film that everybody calls terrible. I have had nightmares about something like that happening to me in the future, and all I can do is hope that it does not happen. Oliver Stone, after Scarface bombed was able to resurrect his career, and I hope that if it happens to me I will be able to resurrect my career as well.