Mark Wahlberg will play a mob kingpin in an untiltled filmed based on the life of international drug dealer Jon Roberts.  The story will show how Roberts returned from Vietnam as a decorated war hero and became a cocaine distributor for the Medellin cartel.

Wahlberg will unite on the project with The Kingdom and Hancock director Peter Berg after he completes work on The Lovely Bones, The Fighter, and The Brazilian Job.

This film is a ways out, being that The Lovely Bones, The Fighter, and The Brazilian Job are all due in 2009.  So don’t expect to see Mark in this film until 2010.