Over the course of two years, he made multiple trips to Mexico, riding the real-life version of these trains and visiting prisons in Chiapas to make connections with gang members who could help ensure that the film had a documentarylike accuracy. His first, “Sin Nombre,” had been an almost preposterously ambitious undertaking for a first-time filmmaker, tracking the intertwining stories of an immigrant and an erstwhile member of MS-13 as they made the dangerous journey to the United States border atop fast-moving train cars, all written by Fukunaga in slang-heavy Spanish. At the end of 2009, the director Cary Joji Fukunaga was hunting for his second feature film.
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