Eva Mendes is set to star in La Reina del Sur, a film about how glamorous it is to traffic narcotics and fuck an ese up:

The story is being touted as a “female Scarface,” and centers on a woman who flees to Spain when her drug-dealing boyfriend is murdered. Once she arrives, she starts her own narcotics operation to finance revenge against her lover’s murderers — and quickly becomes top dog. Joining Mendes in the cast are Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley in as-yet unnamed roles.

News of the flick first surfaced last year, with Mendes, Jennifer Lopez, and Penelope Cruz on the short list for the role, but in the end Mendes won out.

We’re pretty sure Jennifer Lopez only plays women who eat diamonds and have sex with the undead and that Penelope Cruz can only play women whose accents make anything they say in English completely indecipherable, resulting in hullaballoos and hijinx.
All Hail Eva Mendes, ‘Queen of the South’! [Cinematical]