Paramount is working on an adaptation of the 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys (trailer above) with Peter Berg attached to direct and Mark Wahlberg to star.  Peter Berg was a good choice because the camera work in his movies always looks like it was done by someone on a ton of coke. Anyway, today Paramount announced that oblong-skulled writer Evan Wright will handle the screenplay.

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. The deal grew out of his work on a parallel book that Crown will publish next year.

[Cocaine Cowboys will follow] the story of Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam vet by age 20 who ended up involved in gangland takeovers of New York City nightclubs in the early ’70s (his uncle was the consigliere to Carlo Gambino). 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. [THR]

I’m sure Wright will do a good job with this material because if cartoon’s have taught me anything, it’s that people with freakishly large heads are much smarter than other people. In fact, he can probably hear your thoughts.