‘Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin’ with the Godmother’ Restricted Trailer

If you saw the first Cocaine Cowboys then you already know, looks like they have more stories for a part two when the godmother gets down with a Oakland street hustler.

In this documentary sequel to the film that followed the development of the cocaine trade in 1980s-era Miami, filmmaker Billy Corben details the rise of Oakland, CA-based cocaine dealer Charles Cosby, who went from small-time drug slinger to multi-millionaire in a matter of months.

Back in the early ’90s, Cosby was selling ounces on the street and struggling to survive. Later, after writing a fan letter to “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco, who was serving a sentence in a federal prison, Cosby and Blanco struck up a lucrative partnership. Just six short months later, Cosby and Blanco were lovers, and the former fan now placed in charge of Blanco’s 40-million-dollar a year cocaine business. But over the years, Blanco had earned the nickname “The Black Widow” for her propensity to drain men dry and permanently dispose of them when they ceased to be of use to her.

Before long, Blanco becomes obsessed with ensuring that Cosby is faithful to her, and the former small-time drug dealer finally begins to realize that he may have inadvertently gotten in over his head.

Films documentary is set to premier at the CineVegas Film Festival on Friday, June 20th, and hits the streets in DVD form July 29th.

Mark Wahlberg is a Cocaine Cowboy

Peter Berg has wanted to work with Mark Wahlberg for years. I remembered when I interviewed the filmmaker for “Friday Night Lights” in 2004 that he mentioned [before we went on the record] he was considering Wahlberg for the lead in “Splinter Cell”, the adaptation of the video game that he was attached to at the time (he’s not anymore). According to Berg, Wahlberg is both a great actor and also someone than can play an action hero, credibly.
He could be right.

Berg obviously thinks Wahlberg would make a good drug lord too – he’s cast him in his new film about international drug dealer Jon Roberts, whose rise and fall was chronicled in the documentary “Cocaine Cowboys.”

According to Variety, Film 44’s Berg and Sarah Aubrey will produce with Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson, both of whom are exec producers of HBO’s “Entourage.” Roberts’ rights are part of the package, and a writer will be set once the strike ends.
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