{"id":11394,"date":"2014-12-21T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11394"},"modified":"2024-04-27T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:49:06","slug":"the-journey-to-cuidad-the-most-dangerous-and-corrupt-city-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11394","title":{"rendered":"The Journey to &#8220;Ciudad&#8221; &#8211; the Most Dangerous and Corrupt City in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z122114ciudad_page.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"801\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6513\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I first heard<\/strong><\/a> about <em><strong>Ciudad<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 back in March of 2012. \u00a0<\/span>At that time<em><strong> Ciudad<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 was being prepped as a <strong>movie<\/strong> for <strong>Dwayne <em>The Rock<\/em>\u00a0 Johnson<\/strong> and as a <strong>graphic novel<\/strong>\u00a0co-written by <strong>Anthony<\/strong> and <strong>Joe Russo<\/strong> and <strong>Ande Parks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Ciudad<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 sounded like something action fans would love&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Johnson<\/strong> will play a <strong>\u201cblack market mercenary\u201d<\/strong> hired by a <strong>drug lord<\/strong> to rescue his kidnapped daughter in one of the most \u201cdangerous and corrupt cities in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since then\u00a0<b>Fernando Le\u00f3n Gonz\u00e1lez\u00a0<\/b>came on to draw <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ciudad<\/strong><\/span> and <em><strong>The Rock<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 is no longer attached to the movie. \u00a0[What about <strong>Thomas Jane<\/strong> or <strong>Vin Diesel<\/strong> or&#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cuidad<\/strong><\/span> the graphic novel is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1620101467?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1620101467&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>now available<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve ordered my copy. \u00a0If you&#8217;re interested you can too. \u00a0If you&#8217;re still on the fence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=57609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CBR.com has an interview with the Russo Brothers and Andre Parks as well as an extensive preview!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bleeding Cool<\/strong><\/a> offers up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2014\/12\/10\/ciudads-high-octane-action-blows-readers-away-just-time-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Ciudad\u2019s High-Octane Action Blows Readers Away, Just In Time For The Holidays<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about Ciudad\u00a0 back in March of 2012. \u00a0At that time Ciudad\u00a0 was being prepped as a movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,17,56,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-comics","category-crime","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35678,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions\/35678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}