Full Summary:
A bus filled with innocent Mexican
citizens is hi-jacked by the powerful Los Alphas drug cartel and taken to a
desolate area where the occupants are forced to fight to the death with the
winners involuntarily inducted into the cartel as assassins. The ringleader of this modern day gladiator
fight is Diablo, the fearsome commander of Los Alphas, who organizes massacres
of poor Mexican civilians for his own amusement.During the hellish hostage situation, a scared teenaged boy is shot and killed by one of Diablo’s henchmen. The teenaged boy is the nephew of Eddie Romero, a respected journalist at a well-known newspaper in the state of Tamaulipas. Upset over his nephew’s senseless death and tired of cartel activities always being covered up by the media and government, Eddie decides to get his revenge the only way he knows how – by exposing Los Alpha’s involvement in the massacre through an investigative story on the newspaper’s website posted under his pseudonym “The Truth.” This infuriates Diablo who immediately calls for the head of the newspaper’s publisher and an inquiry into the real identity of “The Truth.”
The cartel wastes no time - the next day the publisher, Raul Chavez, who ironically was vehemently opposed to Eddie writing his story, is discovered hanging dead from the lobby ceiling of the newspaper’s office building. Fearing that he’ll be next, Eddie frantically packs up his personal belongings and immediately leaves the newspaper. His first stop is to the state police headquarters where he seeks protection from Los Alphas but he’s shocked to learn that not even the police chief is willing to confront the cartel or even offer him help since he doesn’t want to endure the wrath of Diablo.
With no other option, Romero goes
on the run. Although he fears for his
life, he’s not going to be intimidated by the cartel. Eddie creates a blog site while on the run to
continue exposing Los Alphas and their crimes.
He’s determined to fight the cartel from behind a keyboard until his
work puts Diablo in the ground or in jail and decimates Los Alphas, only then
will children and adults in the community feel safe to walk the streets at
night without being shot or kidnapped.
In order to develop a constant stream of site content, Eddie recruits several bloggers from throughout Mexico to write about cartel members and activities. The constant exposure makes a dent in Los Alphas when the military begins making raids and arrests based on the tips received from Eddie’s website. This infuriates Diablo even more so he goes on a campaign to brutally murder his family, his friends and his bloggers spread throughout Mexico while Eddie successfully hides out in the countryside.
Romero knows that with corruption so prevalent in every corner of Mexico he can't trust anyone and it's only a matter of time until Diablo and his henchmen find him. With the cartel finally bearing down on him, Eddie makes a desperate attempt to escape to the U.S. which leads to the final showdown between him and Diablo. Will Eddie Romero survive? Will Diablo and Los Alphas be brought down? Or will Diablo prove to be all too powerful and squash this annoyance who turned into a worthy adversary?
Diablo Screenplay by jasonwiese2982
In order to develop a constant stream of site content, Eddie recruits several bloggers from throughout Mexico to write about cartel members and activities. The constant exposure makes a dent in Los Alphas when the military begins making raids and arrests based on the tips received from Eddie’s website. This infuriates Diablo even more so he goes on a campaign to brutally murder his family, his friends and his bloggers spread throughout Mexico while Eddie successfully hides out in the countryside.
Romero knows that with corruption so prevalent in every corner of Mexico he can't trust anyone and it's only a matter of time until Diablo and his henchmen find him. With the cartel finally bearing down on him, Eddie makes a desperate attempt to escape to the U.S. which leads to the final showdown between him and Diablo. Will Eddie Romero survive? Will Diablo and Los Alphas be brought down? Or will Diablo prove to be all too powerful and squash this annoyance who turned into a worthy adversary?
Diablo Screenplay by jasonwiese2982
