While countless weary eyed gamers are either playing or thinking about Grand Theft Auto V after last night’s midnight launch, Sam Houser may have just dropped a big hint about source material for Rockstar North’s next game. Houser told NY Times that the Miami drug trade portrayed in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys would make a good setting for a Rockstar game based around a female protagonist.

Houser was asked whether he’d given thought to stronger female characters in Rockstar games, an issue that’s been brought up among game press.

“Seemingly not as much as I should have,” he told NY Times writer Chris Suellentrop.

Griselda Blanco a.k.a. “The Cocaine Godmother”

Suellentrop then writes that Houser cited Cocaine Cowboys as a fitting plotline for a female-driven Rockstar game. The 2006 documentary and its sequel follow the rise of the Miami cocaine scene, highlighting the cartels and their drug lords who fed the surge in cocaine use not just in Miami but across the US in the late 1970s. Although not mentioned by Houser, one of the key players of the era is Griselda Blanco, otherwise known as the Cocaine Godmother.

Blanco was somewhat of a narco matriarch, a renowned drug lord for the Medellin Cartel whose four sons followed their mother into the trade. Three of her sons met tragic deaths after serving prison sentences in the US then being sent back to Columbia. Her fourth son is under house arrest for cocaine trafficking charges. Blanco herself was gunned down execution style in Medellin, Columbia, in September of last year. It’s the kind of story where at least the main plot points wouldn’t need a lot of embellishment for a fictional portrayal.

Source: NY Times