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Wanted or Free

“TITO”

The true story of Dan “Tito” Davis

“Sometimes you choose the life. And sometimes the life chooses you.”

13 Years 54 Countries FBI CIA DEA Marshals Interpol
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Available as a Series  ·  WGA Registered  ·  Based on the Bestselling Memoir

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The Story Begins

A South Dakota kid who outran the world.

For thirteen years, every three-letter agency in the United States wanted Dan “Tito” Davis. None of them could find him. They called him “The Ghost.”

He was born in Pierre, South Dakota in 1953 — a wrestler, a jockey, a restless kid with a mind that worked faster than the world around him could contain. By the time he reached Las Vegas and the campus of UNLV, that mind had found its most dangerous application. He began manufacturing amphetamines — White Crosses, they called them — and what started as chemistry became empire. At his peak, Tito Davis was moving ten million pills a week, distributed through the Bandidos Motorcycle Club across the American Southwest. He wasn't a street dealer. He was an architect.

Federal time came. Five years — a nickel, in the language of men who count their freedom in years. He got out. He went back in the game. And then, in 1994, a childhood friend named Marvin made a phone call that changed everything. An informant's tip. A setup. And Tito Davis disappeared. Not into hiding — into the world. For the next thirteen years, he moved through fifty-four countries, outmaneuvering the FBI, CIA, DEA, U.S. Marshals, Homeland Security, U.S. Customs, Interpol, local law enforcement, mercenaries, guerrilla organizations, kidnappers, and hitmen. He crossed the Darien Gap — the world's most dangerous passage between two continents — on foot. He lived under the direct protection of Julio, a powerful cartel boss in post-Escobar Medellín. He built a resort in Venezuela while Hugo Chávez was calling President Bush "the devil" at the United Nations. He was interrogated in Cuba. He slipped undetected into Germany. He underwent plastic surgery. Twice. He became a university student, an ice cream vendor, a kite-surf champion, an airline pilot. He became everyone else.

When they finally brought him back in 2007 — renditioned from Venezuela — he was given ten years. He served them. And in the silence of a federal prison, he wrote it all down. Seven hundred pages. Every safe house, every border crossing, every choice that cost him something he could never get back. That manuscript became a book. That book became a bestseller. And every reviewer who finished it said the same three words: this is a movie.

“A roller coaster life story. The reader won’t be able to put it down.”

— On Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive

“This book is literally a movie.”

— Reviewers, consistently and unanimously
IT’S NOT ALWAYS NICE
TO FEEL WANTED.
— Dan “Tito” Davis
U.S. WANTED
Dan 'Tito' Davis — The Most Wanted Man in America

Dan “Tito” Davis — The Most Wanted Man in America

Wanted Poster — Dan Tito Davis
The Man Behind the Legend

Dan “Tito” Davis

Wrestler. Jockey. Chemist. Pilot. Cartel associate. Resort builder. Fugitive. Author. There has never been a true story quite like this one — because there has never been a man quite like Dan "Tito" Davis.

At his peak, he was moving ten million pills a week. At his lowest, he was crossing the Darien Gap on foot with nothing but his instincts. For thirteen years, the full weight of the American intelligence and law enforcement apparatus hunted him across fifty-four countries. They never caught him. He came back on his own terms.

He is alive. He is articulate. He is remarkable. And his story has never been told on screen — until now.

“More human. More broken. And completely impossible to look away from.”

— On Tito Davis
Dan Tito Davis today
STILL STANDING.
Dan Tito Davis
"I wouldn't change a thing."
The Man

Dan “Tito” Davis

The Record

Born Pierre, South Dakota, 1953
On the Run 1994 – 2007 (13 Years)
Countries Crossed 54+
Agencies Hunting Him FBI · CIA · DEA · Marshals
Homeland · Customs · Interpol
Plastic Surgeries 2
First Federal Sentence 5 Years
Final Sentence 10 Years
Manuscript Written in Prison 700 Pages
Pills Distributed / Week 10 Million

The Life

Dan “Tito” Davis has been a champion wrestler who knew how to absorb punishment and keep moving, a prize-winning jockey who understood speed and timing and the weight of a single wrong move, an airline pilot who could navigate by instruments alone in conditions that grounded everyone else, a prize-winning kite-surf champion who spent his days in open water answering to no one, a Latin American university student who learned languages and cultures the way other men learned card tricks — fast, fluently, and for survival — a resort owner on the shores of Venezuela who built something beautiful in a country where the president was declaring war on America, a cartel associate who lived inside the architecture of organized crime without ever losing himself entirely to it, an ice cream vendor in the shadow of Mount Rushmore — the most American thing a wanted man could do — a fugitive who crossed jungles, borders, and oceans by sheer force of will, a prisoner who refused to let a cell be the end of his story, and finally, inevitably, an author — because a man who has lived this much life has no choice but to write it down.

The Emotional Core

He didn’t run
because he was afraid.
He ran because he had to.

Every fugitive story is sold as a story about escape. But GRINGO is something different. Tito Davis didn't disappear into the world because he had options — he disappeared because there was no other version of this story where he survives as himself. Freedom, raw and absolute, was the only door left open. He gave up his name. His country. His family. His face — twice. He surrendered every anchor of identity that a human being can possess, and in return, he got to keep the one thing that no court, no agency, no government could legislate away: himself.

That's not a criminal story. That's not even a fugitive story. That's the story of a man who looked at the life the world had planned for him — a cage with paperwork — and said no. The cost was everything. He paid it willingly. What's left when a man gives up his entire world to feel free? That's the question GRINGO asks. And it never lets you look away from the answer.

WANTED OR FREE. HE CHOSE.

The World

TITO Travels the Entire World.

1953 – 1960s
Pierre, South Dakota. The beginning. A restless boy in the middle of America, far from everything, already looking for the edge.
1970s
Black Hills State College → UNLV, Las Vegas. The empire begins. Chemistry meets ambition. White Crosses flood the Southwest through the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. Ten million pills a week.
1980s
National Distribution. The Peak. Federal heat builds. A nickel served. He gets out. He goes back in the game. The machine keeps running — until a childhood friend named Marvin makes a phone call.
1994
The Setup. The Run Begins. Betrayed by someone he trusted since childhood. Rather than face the cage, Tito Davis walks into the world and vanishes.
1994 – 2000
Mexico. Central America. The Darien Gap. He crosses the world's most dangerous overland passage on foot. He arrives in Medellín, Colombia — post-Escobar, still burning — and finds protection under Julio, a powerful cartel boss who teaches him the rules of survival in a world with no tourists, no Americans, and no DEA.
2000 – 2006
Venezuela. Cuba. Germany. Asia. He builds a resort on Venezuelan shores as Chávez rails against America. He is interrogated by Cuban authorities. He slips into Germany undetected. Two rounds of plastic surgery. Forty more countries. Always moving. Always free.
2007
Venezuela — The End of the Run. Kidnapped by paramilitary forces. Renditioned back to the United States. Thirteen years. Fifty-four countries. They finally have him.
2007 – Present
Ten years. Seven hundred pages. The world’s attention. In the silence of a federal prison, Tito Davis writes everything down. Working with writer Peter Conti, the manuscript becomes Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive — an Amazon bestseller reviewed by The New York Times and USA Today. He is alive. He is available. And the story is waiting.
The Series

Three Seasons. Twenty-Four Episodes. One Life That Changed Everything.

01
THE RISE
1960s – 1994

From Pierre, South Dakota to the neon heart of Las Vegas. A brilliant mind finds its calling in chemistry and chaos. Ten million pills. The Bandidos. Federal time. And then — betrayal from the one person he never saw coming. The empire falls. The run begins.

02
THE RUN
1994 – 2003

Fifty-four countries. The Darien Gap crossed on foot. Medellín under Julio's protection — a cartel education in survival, loyalty, and the price of freedom. Love found and lost across continents. A man systematically becoming nobody. And discovering, somewhere in the burning, that nobody feels like everything.

03
NO WAY BACK
2003 – 2007

Cuba. Germany. Venezuela. The net is tightening — thirteen years of international pursuit reaching its final chapter. Plastic surgery. Paramilitary kidnapping. Rendition. The bittersweet mathematics of a life fully lived, fully free, and finally, inevitably, over. What does a man feel when the running stops?

3 Seasons  ·  8 Episodes Per Season  ·  50–55 Minutes Per Episode  ·  WGA Registered #2296994  ·  Full Pilot Script Available  ·  Series Bible Complete
The Characters

Two Forces. One Chase. No Easy Villains.

Protagonist

Dan “Tito” Davis

Real. Alive. Devastatingly complex. He is not Tony Montana — he’s smarter, more adaptable, and far more human. He is not a straightforward criminal or a clean hero. He is a man who made a series of extraordinary choices, lived with each of them fully, and never stopped moving forward. His favorite character in his own story? Julio — the Medellín cartel boss who protected him, taught him, and kept him alive in a city where no Americans dared walk. That tells you everything about who Tito is.

“More human. More broken. And completely impossible to look away from.”

Nemesis

Agent Gabriela Velasquez

Born near the border. Father killed in a cartel hit when she was nine years old. She joined federal law enforcement not out of ambition but out of grief that hardened into iron. Methodical. Incorruptible. And increasingly, disturbingly obsessed. What begins as a case becomes a psychological chess match — thirteen years of moves and countermoves across fifty-four countries. To Tito, she is the villain. To the audience, she is the mirror. The most unsettling thing about Agent Velasquez is how right she is — and how little that matters.

“She doesn’t want to catch him. She wants to understand why she can’t.”

The Source Material

The Bestselling Memoir That Critics Have Called “Literally a Movie.”

“Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive” — seven hundred pages written by hand inside a federal prison, shaped with writer Peter Conti at a Wyoming halfway house, and released into a world that immediately recognized what it was holding.

The book has received coverage from The New York Times and USA Today. It is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. Every reviewer who has finished it has arrived at the same conclusion: this story belongs on screen. The foundation doesn’t need to be built. It already exists. All that’s needed is the right creative team to bring it there.

Amazon Paperback → Ebook → Audiobook → gringobook.com →
A Friend Speaks
“

I've never met a more interesting person who has lived such an amazing life — and who is also one of the most generous humans I've ever met. Dan doesn't just hear you. He listens. He pays attention. He notices. He cares — and he really does care. He's the kind of person who checks in out of nowhere and asks if you're OK. He pushes you to do the things you should be doing. He's interested in your story. He's present in a way most people never are.

Patrick Hardiman
Friend
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Comparables

This Is the World GRINGO Belongs To.

Narcos
Netflix

Cartel power, Latin American geography, DEA pursuit, and a global canvas — GRINGO lives in the same moral landscape, with a protagonist more elusive and personally complex than any Narcos told.

Breaking Bad
AMC

Chemistry turned to criminal empire, a protagonist whose genius is inseparable from his catastrophe, moral collapse rendered with devastating precision — the DNA is there. But Tito Davis lived it.

Catch Me If You Can
Feature Film

Cat-and-mouse across borders, multiple identities, charm and intelligence as the only weapons — but where DiCaprio’s Abagnale was a con man, Davis was a survivor. The stakes are categorically higher.

Ozark
Netflix

A man in over his head, survival at any cost, the corrosive toll of living inside a world you can never explain to anyone who loves you. GRINGO carries that same suffocating psychological weight.

The Americans
FX

Deep cover identity, the psychological cost of a double life, and the unbearable question of who you actually are when no one is watching. GRINGO answers that question across thirteen years and six continents.

For Producers & Directors

Six Reasons This Is the Right Project Right Now.

AN EXTRAORDINARY FOOTNOTE

The man who outran the FBI, CIA, DEA, US Marshals, Interpol, cartels, and mercenaries for thirteen years ultimately had his case touched by Ketanji Brown Jackson — now an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by President Biden in 2022.

From the most wanted man in America — to a Supreme Court Justice. That's not a footnote. That's a chapter.
01
True Story

The proven formula: Narcos, Tiger King, The Jinx, Making a Murderer. Audiences trust real stories. They lean in. They argue with friends. They evangelize. GRINGO is verified, documented, and extraordinary.

02
Subject Is Alive

Dan “Tito” Davis is alive, articulate, and available for consultation, interviews, and behind-the-scenes access. This isn’t archive footage. This is the man himself — still sharp, still present, still remarkable.

03
Fully Developed

The book is published. The three-season arc is complete. The WGA registration is filed (#2296994). The pilot script exists. The series bible is complete. The work has been done. This project is ready to move.

04
Global Audience

Fifty-four countries is not just a stat — it’s a map of international co-production opportunity. Latin America, Europe, Asia: the story is set there, the audiences live there, and the networks know it.

05
Moral Complexity

Not a hero. Not a villain. The prestige streaming audience has been trained by two decades of anti-heroes to demand exactly this: a protagonist you cannot summarize in a sentence and cannot stop watching.

06
The Moment Is Now

True crime and fugitive narratives are at peak cultural resonance. The audience is primed. The platform infrastructure exists. The appetite is documented. GRINGO is the story the moment has been waiting for.

Make It Happen

If This Story Belongs Anywhere, It Belongs on Screen.

The pilot script is written. The series bible is complete. The subject is alive and available. The only thing missing is the creative home this story deserves. If you’re in a position to make that happen, reach out below.

WGA Registration #2296994  ·  Screenplay Available Upon Request  ·  Subject Available for Consultation
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