Prime Video Unveils ‘Cocaine Quarterback’ Trailer, Sets Sept. 25 Premiere
The three-part series retraces Owen Hanson’s path from USC walk-on to cartel-linked conviction through his own account with dramatized scenes.
Overview
- Prime Video confirmed the docuseries from Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas, officially titled Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel.
- The series features interviews with Hanson, archival material and reenactments, directed by Jody McVeigh-Schultz.
- Hanson was arrested in 2015 after an FBI and New South Wales Police investigation tied him to illegal gambling, money laundering and a Sinaloa Cartel drug operation involving thousands of kilograms.
- In 2017 he pleaded guilty and received a sentence of more than 21 years in federal prison, along with a $5 million criminal forfeiture, as 21 associates also pleaded guilty.
- Hanson left federal custody in 2024 and remains on supervised parole following a period in a halfway house.