<Li> Tilda Del Toro as Pedro Castillo's secretary </Li> <P> On April 22, 2007, it was announced that George Clooney would produce a dramatization of the 2005 documentary Our Brand Is Crisis, along with Grant Heslov, and Warner Bros. would handle American distribution rights . Peter Straughan was set to write the script, with Clooney attached as a potential director and star for the film, about the 2002 Bolivian presidential election's campaign by James Carville's Washington, D.C. - based political consulting firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, which was hired by candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada . On December 11, 2013, Sandra Bullock was in early talks to star in the film, while Clooney chose not to direct, and his starring in the film was also unconfirmed at that time . On August 21, 2014, Bullock's casting was confirmed, playing a retired political consultant called' Calamity' Jane Bodine, and David Gordon Green was set to direct the film . On September 11, Scoot McNairy was added to the cast . On September 15, Billy Bob Thornton joined the film, and on September 18, Anthony Mackie joined the cast . On September 24, Ann Dowd joined the film . On October 10, Joaquim de Almeida and Zoe Kazan joined the cast, with Almeida playing Castillo, the former president of Bolivia, and Kazan playing a young woman who finds dirt on political candidates . On October 13, 2014, Participant Media announced that they would co-finance the film with Warner, while Jeffrey Skoll and Jonathan King would executive produce, along with Bullock and Stuart M. Besser . More casting was also announced, which included Reynaldo Pacheco, Dominic Flores, Louis Arcella, and Octavio Gómez . </P> <P> Principal photography on the film began on September 29, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana, using 35mm film . Filming also took place in the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Norco in St. Charles Parish . Additional filming occurred in Puerto Rico and Bolivia . </P> <P> In July 2015, Warner Bros. scheduled the film for an October 30, 2015 release, during the awards season . It had a wide release in 2,202 theaters for 21 days . </P>

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