Ian Frisch

I love compelling protagonists who are up against insurmountable odds.

And I love to see them work through those conflicts over a three act structure.

Kind of hard to find the perfect story in real life, but you'd be surprised at how many great stories are out there that are completely true.

And this is why I had dedicated myself wholeheartedly into telling Martin's story, because it seemed like this sort of David versus Goliath tale of one man who thought that he could take down an entire drug cartel.

And to me, you know, that was a pretty compelling sort of pitch.

But also, too, it was indicative of everything I love about my job.

You know, I feel like being able to tell stories for a living and to connect with an audience in that way is a gift for sure.

Oh, geez, there's so many.

So when Martin became a smuggler in the eyes of the cartel, he really had to prove himself.

He had to prove that he had a technical ability to, you know, smuggle large amounts of cocaine.

And Martin was like, well, you know, we can do it any number of ways.

I have the assets to make it happen.

And one of the first loads he did for the Medellin cartel

They had delivered to him $500 million worth of cocaine.

But the way that they did it was they flew an airplane in the middle of the night over the Caribbean.

And Martin was out there in a boat.

And they dropped bales of cocaine into the ocean.

And these bales were the size of refrigerators.

And they're falling from the sky like bombs.

And Martin couldn't leave any of the cocaine behind.