When Sean Penn stepped down from Cartel a few months back, Josh Brolin stepped right in. Who wouldn’t want to play a man whose wife is brutally murdered by a Mexican drug cartel and whose son will probably go next? Oh, well Sean Penn wouldn’t want to play that role, but who else? [Variety]

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