NEW YORK (Reuters) - Accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was interested in directing a movie about his life story as early as 2007, long before his well-known meeting with U.S. actor Sean Penn and Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo in 2015, jurors in Guzman's U.S. trial heard on Monday.
Alex Cifuentes, Guzman's self-described one-time "right hand man," said he learnt about a planned movie project while living with Guzman in the mountains of his boss' home state of Sinaloa from 2007 to 2009.
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