Magnolia Pictures To Make 'Cocaine Cowboys'

[Tuesday, July 11th, 2006]
Magnolia Pictures is to bring Billy Corben's Cocaine Cowboys, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The movie which chronicles the Miami-based drug trade explosion of the 1980s and its impact on society. The documentary hits theaters in the fall. Jan Hammer, who composed the music for the "Miami Vice" TV series and the upcoming film version, scored "Cocaine," which features interviews with top cops who sniffed out offenders, along with criminals up and down the cocaine food chain, from drug kingpins to dealers and killers.

"It's 'Miami Vice' stripped of its cool pretension and peopled by characters that make Al Pacino's Scarface look like a wimp," Magnolia Pictures president Eamonn Bowles said. " 'Cocaine Cowboys' is a visually imaginative, fantastically constructed and too-strange-not-to-be-true account of how the Miami of today was built."

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