For San Francisco film lovers, we are pleased to present this story from “The Moving Picture.”

Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban’s 2929 Productions has tapped scribe Alex Holmes to write The Infiltrator, a drama about a Customs official who helped uncover a massive money laundering scheme that involved Pablo Escobar.

The film will be based on The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel, a memoir by Robert Mazur which will be published by Arcade in April.

The trades say Holmes’ adaptation will focus on Mazur’s transformation from a married accountant to an undercover operative who hobnobbed with unsavory figures and brought down several major banks that were laundering tens of millions of dollars for Escobar as well as Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Holmes recently served as an executive producer of the HBO mini House of Saddam and also wrote and directed two of the episodes.

While The Infiltrator won’t be following the life of Pablo Escobar, it’s yet another film involving the infamous Colombian gangster being developed. Joe Carnahan is attached to direct Killing Pablo and Antoine Fuqua is still on board to direct Escobar.

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