Drug lords in central America are reported to have plotted to kidnap Irish actor Pierce Brosnan while he was making his new film.
But their plan to hold him to ransom for £2 million was foiled when film producers were tipped off and hired secret agents.
Brosnan was filming The Tailor of Panamawhen the plot came to light.
He was guarded by former operatives from the Israeli secret service Mossad.
According to the Daily Starthe set of the film was surrounded by security guards while Brosnan and his co-stars Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis were around.
The film's director John Boorman admitted: "The actors felt so oppressed. They couldn't move without armed guards surrounding them so we gradually toned it down."
