--- description: Del Toro plays Pablo Escobar title: Benicio del Toro and Josh Hutcherson Star in New "Paradise Lost" Teaser image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26c1b89cc9d440e3/69869bfa3bc99970bb1a48de/benicio-del-toro-pablo-escobar-paradise-lost.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See Benicio del Toro as Pablo Escobar in _Paradise Lost_ Teaser by [Abby Abrams](/author/abby-abrams/) ## Abby Abrams Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 16, 2014 3:30 PM CUT  by [Abby Abrams](/author/abby-abrams/) ## Abby Abrams Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 16, 2014 3:30 PM CUT Benicio del Toro is known for playing shady villains, but in _Paradise Lost,_ slated to premiere this fall, he plays one of the most notorious drug barons in history. In the first teaser trailer, released Wednesday, del Toro appears as Pablo Escobar. The film also features Josh Hutcherson as a surfer, Nick. The movie [reportedly](http://www.chapter2.fr/chapter-2-en-production.html "undefined") focuses on Hutcherson’s character as he visits his brother in Colombia and falls in love with a girl named Maria. The drama comes when Nick meets Maria’s uncle (Del Toro), Colombia’s cocaine king. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2992339/paradise-lost-teaser/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2992339/paradise-lost-teaser/"},"headline":"See Benicio del Toro as Pablo Escobar in Paradise Lost Teaser","datePublished":"2014-07-16T15:30:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:10:47.586Z","description":"Josh Hutcherson also features","url":"https://time.com/2992339/paradise-lost-teaser/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26c1b89cc9d440e3/69869bfa3bc99970bb1a48de/benicio-del-toro-pablo-escobar-paradise-lost.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abby Abrams","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/abby-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26c1b89cc9d440e3/69869bfa3bc99970bb1a48de/benicio-del-toro-pablo-escobar-paradise-lost.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Paradise Lost Trailer","caption":"Paradise Lost Trailer","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2992339/paradise-lost-teaser/","name":"See Benicio del Toro as Pablo Escobar in Paradise Lost Teaser"}}]}] ```