(CNN) Mexico plans to extradite prison escapee Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States, where he faces drug trafficking charges connected to his cartel, authorities said. 
 
 "Since Guzman Loera has been recaptured, the beginning of the extradition proceedings should begin," the Mexican attorney general's office said in statement. 
 
 Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez noted how the U.S. government sought Guzman's extradition as early as June 16, before he escaped for a second time from a Mexican prison in July. 
 
 While on the run for the past six months, the notorious outlaw was not entirely living as a hermit. 
 
 In an interview conducted for Rolling Stone magazine three months after he escaped from prison, he touted his drug trade, saying he "supplies more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world." 
 
 He spent hours talking to actor Sean Penn, who interviewed him for the magazine during a secret meeting in the Mexican jungle. He answered followup questions several weeks later while still on the run, the magazine said. 
 
 Guzman received the followup questions through an intermediary and answered them in a videotape he sent to Penn. 
 
 The article posted online Saturday includes a blunt admission about his intricate dealings in the cartel world. 
 
 "I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats," Guzman told Penn. 
 
 Contact with filmmakers 
 
 When he was not bragging about his drug trade during his time on the run, the kingpin was trying to make a movie deal. 
 
 Police and the military successfully hunted down Guzman and his henchmen this week partly because he or his representatives contacted filmmakers about making an El Chapo biopic, Attorney General Gomez said. 
 
 "Another important aspect that allowed us to pinpoint his location was having discovered Guzman Loera's intention to film a biographical movie through establishing communication with actors and producers, which formed a new line of investigation," Gomez said. 
 
 Hollywood will likely make a movie or even a series about El Chapo, as it has about other drug lords, such as Colombia's Pablo Escobar in "Narcos." 
 
 But for now, Guzman won't have a direct hand in any. 
 
 His efforts to develop a biopic ends in a scene with an interesting twist: After six months on the lam, Guzman is now back in the same maximum security prison from which he escaped, according to a Mexican law enforcement official with knowledge of the case. 
 
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 Surveillance helps in recapture 
 
 The tracking of communications including cell phones and electronic exchanges involving people close to Guzman was critical in his recapture, according to two U.S. law enforcement officials. 
 
 "It was the same apparatus that caught him last time, staying tight on the people around him," one of the officials said. 
 
 The United States shared intelligence with Mexican authorities, but the actual operation was all done by the Mexicans, the U.S. officials said. 
 
 In July, Guzman used an elaborate underground tunnel to break out of a Mexican federal prison. 
 
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 But he was recaptured Friday after the Mexican navy raided a home in the coastal city of Los Mochis in his native state of Sinaloa, where he enjoyed protection from his gunmen and many local residents who revered him as a modern Robin Hood. 
 
 Guzman's prison escape -- his second in 14 years -- embarrassed the Mexican government and became a symbol of its corruption. 
 
 Now that Guzman is back inside the Altiplano maximum security prison in central Mexico, officials aren't disclosing where exactly he is being held inside the facility. 
 
 Chase through sewer tunnels 
 
 The home where he was recaptured Friday had been under surveillance for a month, the attorney general said. 
 
 Guzman arrived at the house Thursday, and authorities raided it in the wee hours of Friday. 
 
 When the Mexican navy arrived, they encountered gunfire from inside, according to Gomez. The navy said five suspects died and six others were arrested. One navy personnel was injured. 
 
 During the shootout, Guzman and an aide allegedly escaped through a manhole that led to the city's sewer system. 
 
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 Soldiers chased him through the sewer tunnels, but he made it to the surface, where he stole a car, authorities said. 
 
 He almost got away, but authorities located the car on a highway outside the city and nabbed him. 
 
 Some of Guzman's alleged accomplices have been detained as well. 
 
 In the July prison break, the man in charge of building the escape tunnel underneath the prison has already been arrested, along with the owner of the land over the tunnel. So was an attorney who allegedly paid for the tunnel, as was Guzman's brother-in-law, authorities added. 
 
 Massive manhunt 
 
 Photos: Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's 2015 escape Photos: Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's 2015 escape Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was considered the world's most powerful drug lord until his arrest in Mexico in February 2014. He escaped from a maximum-security prison on July 11, 2015. Hide Caption 1 of 6 Photos: Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's 2015 escape This screen grab of security video, dated July 11 and released by Mexico's National Security Commission, shows Guzman inside his cell at the Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico. He is looking at the shower floor shortly before escaping through a tunnel below, authorities said. Hide Caption 2 of 6 Photos: Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's 2015 escape A journalist climbs a ladder to get out of the tunnel that authorities say Guzman used to escape. Hide Caption 3 of 6 Photos: Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's 2015 escape Journalists exit the tunnel on Tuesday, July 14. Hide Caption 4 of 6 Photos: Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's 2015 escape Yellow police tape surrounds the construction site where the exit of the tunnel is located. Hide Caption 5 of 6 Photos: Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's 2015 escape Federal police guard a drainage pipe outside of the prison on Sunday, July 12. Hide Caption 6 of 6 
 
 From there, he took off for San Juan del Rio, where two small planes awaited, Gomez said. Two pilots were among the dozens of people arrested. 
 
 In the hunt for Guzman, there were reported sightings and near-misses. In October, authorities said they were hot on his trail, only to have him slip out of sight, though not before apparently breaking his leg 
 
 After his capture this week, a relieved President Enrique Peña Nieto applauded security forces. 
 
 "Mission accomplished: We have him," he tweeted. 
 
 Veteran cartel 
 
 The Sinaloa state native started his drug cartel in 1980. He became a powerful figure, leading a multibillion-dollar empire that supplied much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroin sold on American streets. 
 
 U.S. indictments claim the organization used assassins and hit squads to show its muscle. 
 
 Authorities first arrested Guzman in Guatemala in 1993. They extradited him to Mexico. After his conviction, he went to the Puente Grande maximum security prison. 
 
 But in 2001, he escaped using a laundry cart. He evaded Mexican authorities for years. 
 
 His freedom ended in 2014, when he was arrested in the Mexican resort town of Mazatlan 
 
 Guzman was then sent to Altiplano Federal Prison in Almoloya de Juarez, where he successful made another daring escape last summer. 
 
 But on Friday night, authorities paraded him before the media as their big catch. They later put him on a helicopter, ferrying him back to the same prison. 

 Captured cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán appears to have been brought low in part by a yearning to have a biopic made about him, Mexico’s attorney general said on Friday as the country’s most wanted man was paraded in front of the media. 
 
 El Chapo has often occupied a larger-than-life place in the national imagination, an anti-hero in his home state of Sinaloa and the head of a criminal empire trafficking cocaine on almost every continent. 
 
 According to attorney general Arely Gómez, his narcissism knew no limits and he wanted to take his fame further, to the silver screen in the form of a biopic. It ultimately led to his re-capture on Friday in a tacky hotel in Los Mochis, a town of tomato growers on the Pacific Coast. 
 
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 Guzmán, who has twice escaped from prison, most recently in July 2015, had started the process of making a biopic on a life in which he went from rags to riches, from dropping out of school and selling oranges in the street to landing on the Forbes list of billionaires. It was as if he wanted his own version of “Narcos”, the popular Netflix series on the life of slain Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar – except while alive and able to influence the casting and script. 
 
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 He was so serious about a movie that he attempted to contact producers and actresses through intermediaries after escaping, Gómez said Friday night, before his perp walk at the Mexico City airport. Those attempts came to the attention of the authorities, letting them know that he had returned to his old haunts in the rugged Sierra Madre – an area so impenetrable, it has been compared to the Tora Bora caves of Afghanistan. 
 
 “He established communication with actors and producers, which formed a new line of investigation,” Gómez said. Investigators, she added, tracked the movements of Chapo’s lawyers and their meetings with potential participants in a biopic. 
 
 She didn’t divulge names or any possible actors, however. Nor did she take questions. 
 
 Movies about narcotics trafficking and Mexico’s war on drugs have started appearing in Mexican theatres in recent years – with many receiving critical acclaim. The movies arrived after the government cracked down on drug cartels and violence escalated – to the point it has claimed more than 100,000 lives since 2006. 
 
 Ironically, a film titled The Great Escape – on El Chapo’s life and most recent vanishing act – was set to open in cinemas on 15 January. 
 
 “It will be a series of four pictures that will tell the life story of El Chapo in reverse,” Carlos Olivares, a representative of the film’s distributor, told the newspaper Excélsior. “The first deals with his escape, his human side and the political situation of Mexico.” 
 
 Truth proved stranger than fiction, however. And not everyone was buying what the government said about El Chapo’s big plans for a biopic. “Why would a drug lord call attention upon himself when he is hiding? It makes no sense,” said Rodolfo Soriano Nuñez, a sociologist in Mexico City and social observer. 
 
 The government, he added, “seem to be unaware of how hard it is to believe them”. 
 
 Guzmán’s capture marks a rare piece of good news for the Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, whose popularity has plummeted to depths not seen in two decades amid the fallout from El Chapo’s escape, allegations of corruption in a property deal involving Peña Nieto’s wife, and his aloof response to the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 student teachers. 
 
 “Mission accomplished,” Peña Nieto wrote in a tweet that broke the news. “I would like to inform the Mexican people that Joaquín Guzmán Loera has been captured.” 
 
 Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) Misión cumplida: lo tenemos. Quiero informar a los mexicanos que Joaquín Guzmán Loera ha sido detenido. 
 
 The capture marks the second time Guzmán has been apprehended in the past three years. Mexican marines captured him in Mazatlán in early 2013 after he had foiled previous attempts by fleeing into a system of underground tunnels. 
 
 Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system. 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman in a vehicle after he was recaptured in the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa state in north-west Mexico on Friday. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images 
 
 At the time of his escape, the capo wore a tracker bracelet and was under round-the-clock surveillance, but cameras inside his cell had two blind spots in the shower and toilet. 
 
 
 
 CCTV footage released in October showed that guards failed to intervene even though loud hammering was audible from Guzmán’s cell. 
 
 The Mexican government offered a reward of 60m pesos ($3.8m) for information leading to the drug lord’s recapture, but the escape was extremely embarrassing for the government. It came less than three weeks after the United States filed a request to extradite Guzmán, and the kingpin’s lawyer told the Guardian last year that his escape was prompted by fears that he would face trial in the US. 
 
 Peña Nieto and federal officials came under heavy criticism for refusing to extradite Guzmán to the United States, despite shortcomings in the Mexican prison system. At least 20 public officials, including the former head of the prison system, were arrested after the escape, though there were no cabinet resignations. 

 MEXICO CITY (AP) — The world's most-wanted drug lord was recaptured in a daring raid by Mexican marines Friday, six months after he fled through a tunnel from a maximum security prison in a made-for-Hollywood escape that deeply embarrassed the government and strained ties with the United States. 
 
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 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, flanked by Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, left, and National Defense Secretary Slavador Cienfuegos Zepeda gestures to thank members of his government... (Associated Press) 
 
 Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by army soldiers to a waiting helicopter, at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. The world's most wanted drug lord was recaptured... (Associated Press) 
 
 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto shakes hands with Francisco Guzman, head of the president's office, as National Security Commissioner Renato Sales looks on, during a press conference following the... (Associated Press) 
 
 Mexican Navy marines stand next to their vehicle after they participated in the recapture of Mexico's most wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in the city of Los Mochis, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 08,... (Associated Press) 
 
 A Mexican navy marine inspects an open manhole after the recapture of Mexico's most wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in the city of Los Mochis, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. The world’s most-wanted... (Associated Press) 
 
 Mexican army soldiers escort drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to a helicopter to be transported to a maximum security prison at Mexico’s Attorney General’s hangar, in Mexico City, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.... (Associated Press) 
 
 Apparently Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, also thought his escape was worthy of Hollywood. Part of the reason authorities tracked him down to a house in an upscale neighborhood in a coastal city was because he wanted to film a biopic and his people were communicating with actors and producers, Attorney General Arely Gomez said late Friday. 
 
 She said he was being sent back to the maximum-security prison known as Altiplano, from where he escaped last July 11 through an elaborate tunnel that was dug to shower stall. 
 
 Mexican authorities said nothing about extraditing the drug boss to the United States. 
 
 Guzman was presented late Friday in dark blue athletic clothing. He was frog-marched to a helicopter by marines, who stopped mid-transit and turned his expressionless face toward the media for a clear view. 
 
 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the capture of Guzman using his Twitter account: "Mission accomplished: we have him." 
 
 Few had thought Guzman would be taken alive, and few now believe Mexico will want to try to hold him a third time in Mexican prisons. He escaped from maximum-security facilities in 2001 and on July 11, 2015, the second breakout especially humiliating for the Pena Nieto administration, which only held him for less than 18 months. 
 
 The capture had top Mexican officials at a Foreign Ministry event gleefully embracing and breaking into a spontaneous rendition of the national anthem after Interior Secretary Miguel Osorio Chong delivered the news. 
 
 No sooner than Guzman was apprehended, calls started for his immediate extradition to the U.S., including from a Republican presidential candidate, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. 
 
 "Given that 'El Chapo' has already escaped from Mexican prison twice, this third opportunity to bring him to justice cannot be squandered," Rubio said. 
 
 The United States filed requests for extradition for Guzman on June 25, before he escaped from prison. In September, a judge issued a second provisional arrest warrant on U.S. charges of organized crime, money laundering drug trafficking, homicide and others. But Guzman's lawyers already filed appeals and received injunctions that could substantially delay the process. 
 
 Pena Nieto said he personally issued the order to recapture Guzman and heaped praise on Mexican agencies for their coordinated effort. "Careful and intensive intelligence work was carried out for months" leading up to the arrest, he said. 
 
 Pena Nieto gave a brief live message Friday afternoon that focused heavily on touting the competency of his administration, which has suffered a series of embarrassments and scandals in the first half of his presidency. 
 
 "The arrest of today is very important for the government of Mexico. It shows that the public can have confidence in its institutions," Pena Nieto said. "Mexicans can count on a government decided and determined to build a better country." 
 
 Guzman, a legendary figure in Mexico who went from a farmer's son to the world's top drug lord, was apprehended after a shootout between gunmen and Mexican marines at the home in Los Mochis, a seaside city in Guzman's home state of Sinaloa. 
 
 Gomez said special forces had located Guzman in Durango state in October, but decided not to shoot because was with two women and a child. She also said that one of his key tunnel builders led them to the neighborhood in Los Mochis, where they did surveillance for a month. Early Thursday a car arrived, and authorities were able to determine that Guzman was inside, she said. 
 
 The Mexican navy said in a statement that marines raided a home after receiving a tip about armed men there. They were fired on from inside the structure, it said. 
 
 Five suspects were killed and six others arrested. The marine's injuries were not life threatening. 
 
 "You could hear intense gunfire and a helicopter; it was fierce," said a neighbor, adding that the battle raged for three hours, starting at 4 a.m. She refused to be quoted by name in fear for her own safety. 
 
 Gomez said Guzman was able to escape via storm drains and exited a manhole in the street. But he was captured in a vehicle on the highway and taken to the Doux hotel upon arrest. 
 
 In 2014, Guzman evaded capture by fleeing through a network of interconnected tunnels in the drainage system under Culiacan, the Sinaloa state capital. 
 
 Marines seized two armored vehicles, eight rifles, one handgun and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher at the home in Los Mochis, the navy's statement added. 
 
 Photos of the arms seized showed that two of the rifles were .50-caliber sniper guns, capable of penetrating most bullet-proof vests and cars. The grenade launcher was found loaded, with an extra round nearby. An assault rifle had a 40-mm grenade launcher and at least one grenade. 
 
 "The arrest is a significant achievement in our shared fight against transnational organized crime, violence, and drug trafficking," the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a statement. 
 
 The U.S. Justice Department commended the Mexicans for their work as well. "I salute the Mexican law enforcement and military personnel who have worked tirelessly in recent months to bring Guzman to justice," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. 
 
 After his first capture in Guatemala in June 1993, Guzman was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He reportedly made his 2001 escape from the maximum security prison in a laundry cart, though some have discounted that version. 
 
 His second escape last July was even more audacious. He slipped down a hole in his shower stall in plain view of guards into a mile-long tunnel dug from a property outside the prison. The tunnel had ventilation, lights and a motorbike on rails, illustrating the extent to which corruption was involved in covering up the elaborate operation. Noise of the final breakthrough from the tunnel was obvious inside the prison, according a video of Guzman in his cell just before he escaped. 
 
 Mexico launched a huge manhunt and a couple of months later tracked him to the mountains of his home state, arresting a pilot who allegedly flew Guzman to the region hours after his escape. Guzman was said to have narrowly escaped an earlier capture and injured a leg and his face while fleeing marines in the rugged terrain. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Christopher Sherman in Mexico City and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report. 
 
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 This story has been corrected to show that Guzman's most recent escape was six months ago. 

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– Being on the run as the world's most wanted drug lord apparently wasn't enough fame for Joaquin Guzman: Authorities in Mexico, where "El Chapo" was recaptured on Friday, say they were able to track him down because he wanted to make a biopic about his life and his people had contacted actors and producers about the project, the Guardian reports. Attorney General Arely Gómez says Guzman—whose daring prison break six months ago would presumably have been a big part of the biopic—was captured in the town of Los Mochis in his native Sinaloa state with the help of investigators who had been watching his lawyers. In other developments: Gomez says that for now, Guzman is being returned to the Altiplano maximum-security prison that he escaped from in July, the AP reports. He escaped from another prison in 2001. Authorities say Guzman was recaptured in the coastal town early Friday after a firefight with Mexican Navy marines that killed five of his bodyguards and injured one marine, CNN reports. He escaped through tunnels—as he has done many times before—and managed to steal a car before he was stopped on a highway outside of town, authorities say. In the US, the Drug Enforcement Administration praised the capture, which many thought would never happen, as a "victory for the rule of law" and a "significant achievement" in the shared fight against drug trafficking, the Los Angeles Times reports. The DEA and Mexico will "continue to work together to respond to the evolving threats posed by transnational criminal organizations," the agency said in a statement. The US does, however, want to see Guzman in an American prison instead of a Mexican one this time and there have been calls for immediate extradition, the AP reports. "Given that 'El Chapo' has already escaped from Mexican prison twice, this third opportunity to bring him to justice cannot be squandered," said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called the recapture a sign that Mexicans can trust national institutions and the rule of law, though experts tell NBC that the president will probably sign off on extradition to avoid the potential humiliation of having Guzman escape once again.