Traffic movie series#

Salazar instructs Javier to apprehend Francisco Flores (Clifton Collins Jr.), a hitman for the Tijuana Cartel, headed by the ObregГіn brothers.Д«ack in Tijuana, Flores, under torture, gives Salazar the names of important members of the ObregГіn cartel, who are arrested. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar (Tomas Millan), a high-ranking Mexican official who decides to hire Javier. In Mexico, police officer Javier Rodriguez (Benicio del Toro) and his partner Manolo Sanchez (Jacob Vargas) stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers.

Starring:В Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Produced by:В Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz.

In 2004, USA NetworkВ ran a miniseries-also called Traffic-based on the American film and the earlier British television series. It was also a commercial success with a worldwide box-office revenue total of $207.5 million, well above its estimated $46 million budget. Traffic was critically acclaimed and earned numerous awards, including four Oscars: Best DirectorВ for Steven Soderbergh, Best Supporting ActorВ for Benicio Del Toro, Best Adapted ScreenplayВ for Stephen GaghanВ and Best Film EditingВ for Stephen Mirrione. Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive cinematographyВ tint for each story so that audiences could tell them apart. USA Films, however, liked the project from the startВ and offered the film-makers more money than Fox. Soderbergh refused and proposed the script to other major Hollywood studios, but it was rejected because of the three-hour running time and the subject matter - Traffic is more of a political filmВ than most Hollywood productions.

Traffic movie series#

The film is an adaptation of the British Channel 4В television series Traffik.Дў0th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded Harrison Ford playВ a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. It explores the ilegal drug tradeВ from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker. Traffic is a 2000 American crime dramaВ directed by Steven SoderberghВ and written by Stephen Gaghan.