HBO has ponied up for Cocaine Cowboys, a drama about the 1980s drug trade in Miami.
Prolific producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay brought the project, based on a documentary by Billy Corben, to the cable channel and will executive produce. Meredith Stiehm, creator of the Bruckheimer-produced Cold Case, will write a pilot script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Cocaine Cowboys will be set in Miami in the early ’80s, when an influx of cocaine from Colombia turned the city into a mecca for drug traffickers and helped burnish Miami’s image as a hedonistic playground. The documentary’s producers are working with Bruckheimer’s team on the project.
The show is the first for Bruckheimer at HBO. His other series — which include the CSI franchise and Without a Trace — have all aired on broadcast networks. He does have a pilot in development at TNT.
It’s also part of a wave of development at HBO. The cable channel, which is in the midst of refreshing its original-series lineup, has picked up three new comedy series in the past week and has a half-dozen other pilots under consideration.
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