He immersed himself in the mean streets of New York for six weeks and, in the end, emerged with a screenplay about Barnes’ life. A student of gangster films, Wright saw a noticeable lack in stories about powerful people of color, in the genre. His research in writing that series led him to the story of Nicky Barnes, a drug dealer and one of the most powerful men in New York City, in his heyday. One of his first endeavors was to write a treatment for The Godfather: Part III, because he knew Paramount had a high interest in making a third installment of its epic mafia tale, and Wright had a love for the film series. In the mid-1980s, Thomas Lee Wright, a creative executive at Paramount Studios left the company to pursue a career as a screenwriter.
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