Benicio Del Toro has signed on to star alongside Denzel Washington in Tru Blu for Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures with Antoine Fuqua set to direct.
Production is set to beign in early fall with an anticipated release of June 3, 2005.
Del Toro will play Detective Richie Roberts, who was matched against Frank Lucas, the mastermind of a major heroin scheme in which the drug was smuggled into the U.S. in the caskets of soldiers killed in Vietnam.
The film is based in part on a New York Magazine article by Mark Jacobson.
