It's about a guy who was a cocaine smuggler in a mafia - we kind of know those stories - but he also worked closely with the government to smuggle arms for the Contras." Berg and Film 44 cohort Sarah Aubrey are producing with Wahlberg and " Entourage" executive producer Stephen Levinson. "It's also a story that outwardly seems familiar, but the more you get into it, it's never really been told this way. "It's really an exciting story about the secret history of America," Wright said. Billy Corben's popular documentary of the same name, released by Magnolia in 2006, covered a slice of Roberts' history. By the end of the decade, Roberts landed in Miami, dealt billions of dollars worth of coke for the Medellin drug cartel and ultimately spent 10 years in prison. Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have been attached to star in and direct, respectively, the story of Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam vet by age 20 who ended up involved in gangland takeovers of New York City nightclubs in the early '70s (his uncle was the consigliere to Carlo Gambino). The deal grew out of his work on a parallel book that Crown will publish next year. Wright, who wrote the nonfiction book on which the HBO miniseries " Generation Kill" is based, has closed a deal to write the feature " Cocaine Cowboys" for Paramount. Gonzo journalist-screenwriter Evan Wright has moved from American cowboys on the Iraqi frontier to the cocaine cowboys of 1970s Miami.
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