Benicio Del Toro Signing On For Oliver Stone’s Crime Thriller ‘Savages’

Deadline have made known that Benicio Del Toro is signing on to play a deadly drug cartel enforcer named Lado in Oliver Stone’s upcoming crime thriller ‘Savages.’ For the past few weeks Del Toro had been link to role. Del Toro is one of my favourite actors working today, his involvement in a film automatically boosts my interest levels in it by roughly 74.438438677% (roughly). The fact that the film is based on highly acclaimed novel (‘Savages: A Novel’) gives me even more hope for this being top-notch.

If Dealine’s sources are on the button Aaron Johnson and Taloy Kitsch look set to be joining Del Toro as Ben and Chon, two best friends who are growers of marijuana in Laguna. They share an unusual love triangle relationship with a trippy girl named O. Their quiet lucrative life is interrupted by a visit from the drug enforcer Lado (Del Toro) who tells them they will have to work for his boss, a Mexican cartel matriarch. When they resist, O gets kidnapped and the ransom is every ill-gotten cent they’ve made.

Furthermore Salma Hayek is being tapped to play the cartel matriarch, an iron-fisted beauty who becomes intrigued and practically maternal over the kidnapped gal. Production is set to start on ‘Savages’ this summer.