Leonardo DiCaprio joins Mark Wahlberg in remake of Cocaine Cowboys

Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly joining Mark Wahlberg in an untitled remake of the 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys. , Mark Wahlberg will play the drug kingpin Jon Roberts in the story, which chronicles the life of the largest cocaine trafficker in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s.  And Wahlberg  has persuaded Leonardo DiCaprio to play the supporting role.  A movie insider says of the movie:

 ”It will blow Blow out of the water.  And Leo is excited about the opportunity to play the airplane pilot who travels with Mark’s character to obtain kilos of cocaine from Pablo Escobar.”

The pair will be doing their third film together after 1995′s The Basketball Diaries and most recently in 2006′s The Departed.