Amazon has reportedly purchased the rights to American Speed ... car and open-wheel racing scene who were later tied to a drug smuggling ring that allegedly funded their careers.

Reaves smuggled the drug which ... in the film American Made) to fly the planes. In the mid-1980s, Reaves was living in a boat in France, and began to work with Welsh drug smuggler, Marks.

Gerry Wills, who organised the transportation of the cannabis and went on to spend six years in an American prison ... he ...

Deadline reports today that Tom Holland and Austin Butler are teaming up for a new movie ... drug smugglers. Specifically, the pair of Hollywood A-listers will star together in American Speed ...

Rather, the Spider-Man and Dune actors are revving up and readying themselves to lead true-story inspired racing drama American Speed ... using money gained from drug smuggling, laundering ...

A director has not been named. While American Speed is said to focus on the Whittingtons, they represented just one of a series of cases related to drug smuggling and IMSA racing in the 1980s.

Screenwriter Dan Wiedenhaupt is penning the script for the film that is based on a true story. American Speed follows the three race car-driving Whittington brothers, two of whom were involved in the ...

Police in Peru have arrested a man caught trying to leave the country with 320 tarantulas, 110 centipedes and nine bullet ...

OXFORD-educated cannabis smuggler Howard Marks called his memoirs ... Marks lived a life of luxury as a drugs kingpin. Pictured, his yacht 'Philante' in Majorca, 1988Credit: News Group Newspapers ...