Wahlberg and DiCaprio are Cocaine Cowboys

Cocaine-Cowboys-DicaprioLeonardo DiCaprio is one of those actors that just keeps getting better and better with each outing. He’s gone from annoying little teen magazine cover boy, to honestly one of the very best actors in the industry today. The scary thing is he still has a lot of films left in him, and I’m getting curious to see exactly how good he’ll get.

Always on the lookout for scripts that (when combined with his considerable talent) have the potential to gain him some Oscar consideration, it look like he may have found his next role as a Cocaine transporter in Cocaine Cowboys. The good folks over at Cinematical give us this:

Mid-strike, filmmaker Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg signed on for Cocaine Cowboys, a feature adaptation of that cocaine trafficking documentary that came out back in 2006. Mr. Wahlberg was set to play Jon Roberts, a Miami drug dealer who distributed billions of dollars worth of cocaine. Now Page Six says that he’ll be joined by Departed co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for all of the retro drug shenanigans. A movie insider told the site that this film “will blow Blow out of the water,” and that Leo “is excited about the opportunity to play the airplane pilot who travels with Mark’s character to obtain kilos of cocaine from Pablo Escobar.”

I like the idea for this movie… I even like the idea of seeing DiCaprio and Wahlberg on screen together again. The only thing that gives me a bit of pause is that the original documentary seemed to have been a celebration of the drug trade as opposed to a documentary of it in Miami. Therefore, my only concern is that this narrative version will try to make these characters (who profited on the blood, suffering and addiction of others) out to be cinematic heroes. I have nothing to suggest they’ll actually do that, but it is a worry of mine.

That aside, the project looks like a winner to me. Maybe they should see if they can get Martin Sheen in there too just for good measure.

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13 thoughts on “Wahlberg and DiCaprio are Cocaine Cowboys

  1. From my point of view all the Cociane Cowboys did was bring unwanted heat to all of South Florida. Because of thier inability to keep from killing each other they caused the feds to put Southwest Florida (Everglades City) in thier sites as well. From 1979 to 1988 our crew managed to smuggle over 25 million pounds of Jamaican and Colombian marijuana and over 150,000 pounds of cociane into the U.S. without firing a shot (because we didn’t carry guns) there was no neede too. We were just a bunch of good ol boys that had a unique skill set and an intimate knowledge of “The Ten Thousand Islands. This is a fact that, today, I’m not proud of but it just burns my butt to know that if it weren’t for the “Cociane Cowpokes” screwin’ up the works my crew and I might have retired with our millions. Instead we spent decades in federal prison! This movie should be a comedy! Unlike us, the Cociane Cowboys were a bunch of disorganized clowns who distroyed a city along with thier lives.

  2. I SAW DA DOCUMENTARY,AND I LIVE IN MIAMI SENCE 80,MY FAMILY SENCE DA 70’S NOT TO SURE ABOUT THE SPACIFICS,BUT FROM SHIT I HEARD(FAMILY AND LITTLE HAVANA INHABITANTS)AND SEEN(DOCUMENTARY)JUDGING ON DA HISTORY OF LEO AND MARKS ROLES(MOST RECENTLY DEPARTED,4 BROTHERS AND SHOOTER)THERES A CHANCE THEY MIGHT OVER EXAGGERATE THE SIZE OF THE REAL GUYS COJONES.IF U SEEN DA DOC U’LL NO WUT I MEEN.I THINK THE TRUE STORY IZ BASED ON THE COLUMBIAN ASSASIN,BUT SENCE HOLLYWOOD TENDS 2 AVOID THE ANTI HERO PRTAGANUS..IT JUST NOT GOIN TO HAPPEN….THERES A VERY IMPORTANT FACT OF THE COCAINE COWBOY HISTORY U MIGHT HAVE MISSED,BUT THA DOC. CLEARLY STATES WHO THE COCAINE COWBOYS ARE,AND ITZ NOT THE PILOT AND DA PLANNER SO KEEP DAT IN MIND WHEN THE MOVIE COMES OUT,U NO HUS INCASE WE GET ANOTHER STORY CHANGIN FUK UP FILM,IT’Z DA GUYS THAT DID ALL DA KILLINGZ…..DADE LAND MALL MASSACRE IN LIQUOR STORE…”SHOOT OUT” NEWS SAYS COCAINE COWBOYS STRIKES AGAIN,ALL LATIN MALES…CUBANS AND COLOMBIANS….AND ANOTHER IMPORTANT FACT THAT THEY BETTER NOT SKIP OUT ON,DIS MAKES IT DA MOST INTERESTIN PART OF THE STORY.NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN A LATIN FAMILY(ON THE COUNT OF ”MACHSMO”)THE MAIN BAD GUT IZ A BAD GIRL.SHE,AND THE DOCUMENTARY STATES LOVES HAVING PEOPLE CHOPPED UP..”QUOTE” IT’S HER THING…SHE’S REAL FUKED UP..EVEN MORE SO DEN ENY MALE BAD GUY IN A MOVIE OR GANGSTA I’VE HEARD OF SO FAR,AND I WUZ A HUSTLA IN MIAMI FRUM 92-95 NOT THA LONGEST RUN BUT ISPITE MY LEAVE I STUCK AROUND,AND TRUST ME I NO SUM THINGS…SO REMEMBER ABOUT THESE FACTS IM TELLIN U IF AND WHEN DA MOVIE HAPPENS…U’LL BE ABLE TO SPOT THE TRUTH BEHIND THE CHANGES HOLLYWOOD TENDS TO MAKE….OH THE MOVIE ”BLOW” STEMS FROM THE COCAINE COWBOYS STORY…JUS THOUGHT U SHOULD NO,WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY AND U’LL SPOT SUM SIMULARITIES,ALL THOUGH NOT TO MANY,THERE STILL THERE.

  3. The main characters in the Miami 80’s drug game were fresh-off-the-boat minorities, unless you consider the consumer who makes the market (in this case, white folks bought the blow)…I’m guessing based on the actors chosen that this movie adaptation is going to be seen through Caucasian eyes in order to attract the larger market.

  4. the documentary was awesome…and im a big fan of paul berg….mark wahlberg is a gangsta and leo has gotten props from me for the departed…looks good to me

  5. well i just watched this movie ( the original doc. ) and it was very intrresting of what the main guys where saying cause it pretty much says that hollywood’s movie attempts where all kinda not true…..should make a great movie…btw pablo escobar was not the main man in the doc it was the ochoa family.

    i seen it at QSS if u no the site

    ps i would like to take a moment of silence for stage6.com cant believe u dont have a article onb it john, serena, doug. its was really an awesome site that allowed millions of copies of bootleg divx movies to flourish!!!!! wooot.

  6. I havn’t seen the documentary yet, so correct me if I’m wrong, but what nationality is Jon Roberts, because I thought he was coloumbian. And is Micky Munny the pilot?

    1. Mickey Munday is a Redneck from Florida and john roberts is an italian american from New York

      Do you know if the movie is in Australia i want to see it but i am not sure if it is out here yet.

      Also is the movie going to be or is is called Cocain cowboys.

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