Netflix brings the return of COCAINE COWBOYS on August 4th!
Documentary filmmaker Billy Corben has directed some of my very favorites in the genre -- the bare-knuckle brawling of 2015's Dawg Fight, 2018's roided out baseball saga Screwball, and of course the ultimate 80's drug epics of 2006's Cocaine Cowboys and it's bonkers 2008 sequel. Now Corben's back with another tale of 80's infamy, excess, and abuse in Netflix's six part series Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami.
The official synopsis and trailer:
Fifteen years after the release of his cult classic film comes director Billy Corben’s Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami, a six-part saga on the South Florida traffickers indicted in one of the largest drug cases in U.S. history. Alleged to be the chief U.S. distributors for two of Colombia’s biggest cartels, Cuban exiles Augusto “Willy” Falcon and Salvador “Sal” Magluta were accused of smuggling over 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S. in the 1980s. The high school friends built a reputed $2 billion empire that made Willy and Sal, aka “Los Muchachos,” two of Miami’s biggest celebrities. While law enforcement plotted their takedown, the world champion powerboat racers managed to skillfully outrun and outmaneuver prosecution for decades before the chase finally came to an end. Featuring colorful interviews with those closest to them, their defense team, and the Feds tasked with taking them down, the series paints a vivid portrait of the last of Miami’s “cocaine cowboys.”
Add it to your queue today to get notified when it drops on Aug 4th!
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