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"Hold on!" Pope (played by Oscar Isaac) warns the ragged South American coca farmer wielding a machete to stay away from their money, $250 million, spread out like a yard sale, having just plunged thousands of feet from a crippled and crashing Mi8 Russian helicopter. "Hold on!" is most appropriate and may very well have been the best mantra for those who dared to journey on the wild ride that was Triple Frontier. Originally scripted by Mark Boal with Kathryn Bigelow attached to direct, Atlas Entertainment developed this project for several years, looking for the right talent and the right timing to bring this story to life. Some three years ago, when the tides were shifting, J.C. Chandor took the directing helm and now, Triple Frontier has finally come to life. Backed by Netflix and a willingness to gamble on original content, their global exposure gave life to this compelling story about morality, friendship, brotherhood and greed that ultimately tears these characters apart from the inside out. The story follows five ex-Special Forces members who cross the Brazil border intending to steal $75 million from an "El Chapo"-like drug lord who lives deep in the South American jungle. For myself, this adventure/heist film has been an intimate world-building experience hyperfocused on a very nondescript location of intersecting countries in South America known as the "Triple Frontier." The borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay play as both inspiration and background for the fictional world that would need to be created to tell this story. A THE ART OF T R I P L E F R O N T I E R T h e W i l d R i d e T h a t W a s B Y G R E G B E R R Y, P R O D U C T I O N D E S I G N E R