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Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Prods. has set "House of Saddam" scribe Alex Holmes to write "The Infiltrator," a drama about a Customs official who helped uncover a massive money laundering scheme that involved Pablo Escobar.

The production company has optioned "The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel," a memoir by Robert Mazur to be published by Arcade in April.

Holmes' adaptation will focus on Mazur's transformation from a married accountant to an undercover operative who hobnobbed with unsavory figures and brought down several major banks that were laundering tens of millions of dollars for Escobar as well as Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Holmes recently served as an exec producer of the HBO mini "House of Saddam" and also wrote and directed two of the episodes.

Pic will be produced by 2929 prexy Marc Butan and its topper Wagner. Cuban will be exec producer.

Mazur, who served as a senior special agent with three federal agencies -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the IRS and the Drug Enforcement Agency -- now runs the forensic investigative firm Chase and Associates.