Federico Jusid has been hired to score the upcoming crime drama Escobar. The film is directed by Fernando León de Aranoa (Mondays in the Sun, A Perfect Day) and stars Javier Bardem in the title role, alongside Penelope Cruz and Peter Sarsgaard. The movie tells the true story of the notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and focuses on an unlikely love affair with his polar opposite, a glamorous television host named Virginia Vallejo. León de Aranoa also wrote the screenplay based on Vallejo’s book Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar.