Franz Sanchez

Franz Sanchez is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was played by Robert Davi. The character is based on Pablo Escobar. Davi spent weeks studying Colombian culture and music before taking on the role. Sanchez is a South American drug lord of mixed parentage (as his first name indicates, one of his parents was German) whose empire is based in Brazil. He specialises in cocaine. He has an elaborate infrastructure for transporting his drugs - initially using submarines and later finding a process for dissolving cocaine in gasoline for covert transport. He also finances a televangelist, Professor Joe Butcher, in order to use his show as a contact point for his distribution network....