Evan Wright takes on 'Cocaine Cowboys'

July 24, 2008 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. 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. Wright had already been meeting with Roberts, who's now in his late 50s, and his partner Mickey Munday in Florida since February, but he only recently decided to pitch the producers on his "burning desire" to adapt his in-the-works book into a film.

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