After working together on 2016's sci-fi movie Midnight Special, Adam Driver and writer-director Jeff Nichols are re-teaming for an adaptation of David Grann's New Yorker article Yankee Comandante, reports Variety. Published in May 2012, "The Yankee Comandante" outlines how two people rose to the rank of "comandante" during the Cuban Revolution. One was Che Guevara, and the other was a white man from Ohio. Nichols will direct from his own screenplay, and Imperative Entertainment and 30 West are currently shopping the project to select studios, with production slated to start next year once the COVID-…

Back in April 2016, it was announced that Oscar winner Benicio del Toro would star in a film about the Cuban mafia titled The Corporation, based on the nonfiction book by T.J. English. Three years later, sources tell Collider that the project is moving forward, as Tyler Hisel has been hired to write the script for Paramount and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way banner. The film will follow the unique, untold story of Jose Miguel Battle Sr., the leader of “The Corporation," who was known among the Cuban-American community as "El Padrino," aka "The Godfather." Battle served as …