Writer-director Ben Hernandez Bray and good friend/director Joe Carnahan (The Grey) speak on the upcoming move El Chicano.
Joe Carnahan ditched the upcoming Bad Boys 3 movie to help make El Chicano and by the looks of the trailer, we see sequels in the future. This movie is looking really good. Continue on to watch and see why Carnahan wanted to do this movie over the upcoming Will Smith + Martin Lawrence cop movie…
CelebNMovies247.com has your first look at Briarcliff Entertainment upcoming vigilante movie El Chicano.
Our streets. Our fight. Our hero. is the motto for the upcoming Ben Hernandez Bray movie El Chicano. He has worked as a stunt coordinator in the industry for some time.
Bray co-write the script with his good friend Joe Carnahan, director of movies such as The Grey. Carnahan actually bailed on writing Bad Boys for Life to do this instead, which says a lot.
Here is what writer/director Joe Carnahan said about the movie last month because he has faith that he made the right decision.
My best friend and former stunt coordinator Ben Hernandez Bray had been talking about El Chicano for over 10 years and having lost his own brother to gang violence, there was a very real life corollary with the story. Ben always said that as a Latino, he never really identified with Batman, or ‘a billionaire white boy who worked out of a cave.’ I was working on Bad Boys for Life and got kind of fed up with that process and really believing in my friend and the story he wanted to tell, I threw myself into El Chicano and now, two years later and our pockets drained, here we are, with this fantastic movie, opening Cinco De Mayo weekend, right after The Avengers: Endgame. I think this date, at the top of the summer, speaks volumes about how good the movie is and how much confidence Tom Ortenberg and everyone at Briarcliff has in El Chicano.
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Synopsis:
When L.A.P.D. Detective Diego Hernandez is assigned a career-making case investigating a vicious cartel, he uncovers links to his brother’s supposed suicide and a turf battle that’s about to swallow his neighborhood. Torn between playing by the book and seeking justice, he resurrects the masked street legend El Chicano. Now, out to take down his childhood buddy turned gang boss, he sets off a bloody war to defend his city and avenge his brother’s murder.
El Chicano starring Raúl Castillo and George Lopez in theaters May 3.
