From Salt Lake City to the Sinaloa Cartel: the story that captivated Gael and Diego
Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, those two guys who normally make us laugh or cry on screen, put on the hats of producers. And not for anything. They immersed themselves in the story of Ryan Wedding, aka “The Thor.” The pitch? A Canadian Olympic athlete who changed the ski slopes for the paths of alleged drug trafficking.
The docuseries is called “Snow King: From Olympian to Narco”. It sounds like a 90s action movie, but it’s pure reality. Wedding competed in Salt Lake City 2002 and, according to authorities, ended up directing cocaine routes from Colombia to the United States and Canada, with Mexico as a key point.
The team had access to investigative journalists, as well as agents and former agents of the FBI and Mexican authorities.
That’s no small feat. It means it won’t just be a superficial recount. Filming began in January last year and lasted more than twelve months, filming in three countries. They captured everything from the intensified manhunt to the moment Wedding surrendered in Mexico, before being sent to the United States.
It’s the kind of project that makes you think: how does someone with everything to succeed legally make that turn? Gael and Diego seem to want to explore that transformation beyond the morbid. It is not just telling a crime; It is understanding a fall.
We’ll see if they manage to give that human depth to a story that already has all the ingredients of a thriller.
