MEXICO CITY, Mexico (The Adobo Chronicles) – It’s the biggest news in Mexico and the United States: drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been re-captured after escaping from prison and being on the run for the past six months.,

Guzman faces drug trafficking charges in the United States and the Mexican government has expressed its willingness to extradite him to the U.S.

Now it is known that Guzman spent  hours talking to American actor Sean Penn, who interviewed him for a magazine during a secret meeting in the Mexican jungle. It was during that meeting with Penn that El Chapo expressed his interest to have his life depicted in a Hollywood film.

Guzman’s Hollywood ambition supercedes his drug business interests or the potential for his incaceration so he expressed his willingness to voluntarily surrender to U.S. authorities as long as they allow him to film and finish a Hollywood movie about his life. He wants to play himself in the movie.

Sean Penn  wanted to play the role of Guzman in the film but he says he is as excited directing it.  It could be an Oscar-winning film, Penn says.