News > Wahlberg to Play Drug Lord for Berg

Written by David Morgan

Mark Wahlberg has been cast in an untitled thriller directed by Peter Berg about international drug dealer Jon Roberts. According to Variety, "After returning from Vietnam as a decorated soldier, Roberts headed to Miami in the late '70s and formed a relationship with the Medellin drug cartel, distributing cocaine worth billions of dollars. Wahlberg will play Roberts, who was turned in by a cohort and served a decade in jail for his crimes."

Obviously this project is still a ways off. No writer has been assigned yet, and none will be until the strike has ended. Marky Mark is busy as of late. He's starring in Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and will soon star with Brad Pitt in Darren Aronofsky's The Fighter. Roberts's exploits were chronicled in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys.