Diego Luna and Michael Peña Join ‘Narcos’ Season 4 ~ Cinenus

Netflix’s acclaimed drug cartel thriller experiences yet another big casting shake-up.

Yesterday, Netflix released a new teaser introducing season 4 of Narcos to the world and revealed a rather large bombshell: a brand new leading duo. Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Flatliners) and Michael Peña (The Martian, Ant-Man) will be the new stars of the show. Watch the teaser below:

<p>Initially headlined by <strong>Pedro Pascal</strong> and <strong>Boyd Holbrook </strong>during <em>Narcos</em>‘ first two seasons, the show shifted its focus after the resolution of the Pablo Escobar (<strong>Wagner Moura</strong>) storyline that defined much of the earlier premise. The show’s third season picked up with just Pascal as DEA agent Javier Peña, with <a href="http://ift.tt/2CMQFDA">Holbrook’s Steve Murphy departing</a> and the narrative shifting to shine a spotlight on with Escobar’s successors: the Cali cartel in Colombia.</p> <p>Spoiler alert, but Pascal himself had been cagey about a return post-<em>Narcos</em> season 3. He determined <a href="http://ift.tt/2x7v4ah">in an interview</a> earlier this year that his character had pretty much reached the end of his journey, albeit in a rather horrific way:</p> <blockquote> <p>“I do think that we’ve told Peña’s story pretty effectively. ‘The only way to win is not to play’ is a certain aspect of it. He has been irremovably changed by this experience and whether he’ll be happy in his life at home? I would say no. I don’t think it’s a particularly happy ending for him. But I think it’s certainly accepting the futility of this … It’s definitely a defeat for him and his only move is to just say, ‘I can’t continue to function.’ What’s tragic about it is that you’re losing truly one of the good guys. He’s put in positions where he has to do terrible things and does them and comes out of it feeling like he’s probably pretty broken.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Luna and Peña fourth season will continue the <em>Narcos</em> narrative in a whole new country — Mexico — and track the Guadalajara cartel in the late 1970s and early 1980s (yes, that means a jump backward in the show’s timeline). This won’t be the first time Luna and Peña have worked together. Luna cast Peña as the eponymous lead in his English-language directorial debut, <em>César Chávez</em>, although this will be the first time both men perhaps share a screen. That’s a presumptuous take, obviously, since we have no idea who Luna and Peña will be playing in the fourth season of <em>Narcos</em>.</p> <p><a href="http://ift.tt/2BKf3IV">According to Variety</a>, production on season 4 of <em>Narcos</em> recently began in Mexico City. The new season is slated to premiere sometime in 2018.</p> <div class='yuzo_related_post style-3' data-version='5.12.70'> <div class='yuzo_clearfixed yuzo__title'> <h4>More to Read:</h4> </div> <div class='yuzo_wraps'> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2AirTdA" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">Netflix is Bringing She-Ra Back</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2nXWrzM" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">Frank Castle Will Return: ‘The Punisher’ Season 2 Confirmed</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2kqVfUa" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">‘Black Mirror’ Season 4 Trailer Reveals Launch Date</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2iXFTpG" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">‘Black Mirror’ Season 4 Review: Beware of What You Wish For</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2koSO4c" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">‘Altered Carbon’ Trailer: Death is But a Mere Inconvenience</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2kmlcnH" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">‘House of Cards’ Will Continue Without Kevin Spacey</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2BxpTyf" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">‘Stranger Things’ and the Pitfalls of Audience Engagement</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2izXxQg" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">‘Riverdale’ Spin-Off ‘Sabrina’ Heading to Netflix</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2zHdOGe" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">‘Stranger Things’ Returning for Season 3 on Netflix</a></div> <div class="relatedthumb yuzo-list"><a class="link-list yuzo__text--title" href="http://ift.tt/2jBsC2t" style="font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;;line-height:24px;">‘Mindhunter’ Second Season Officially A Go</a></div> </div> </div>

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