Netflix Units U.K. Undercover Drug Gang Drama ‘Legends’ From ‘The Gold’ Creator Neil Forsyth (EXCLUSIVE)

Netflix has greenlit a brand new U.K. drama from “The Gold” showrunner Neil Forsyth per a jaw-dropping right legend about a bunch of Customs workers who went undercover to infiltrate some of Britain’s most unhealthy drug gangs.

Titled “Legends,” the six-segment sequence follows a thrilling legal investigation per Forsyth’s in depth learn and interviews with these eager.

“Within the early Nineties, at the pause of the worldwide wrestle on medicine, the authorities company responsible of Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realized that they had been shedding the fight against drug smuggling. Their resolution used to be unprecedented,” reads the logline. “In a prime-secret operation, a tiny crew of British Customs workers had been despatched undercover. Their process – to infiltrate Britain’s most unhealthy drug gangs.”

“They had been now no longer trained spies. These had been customary males and girls folk, plucked from customary lives across the U.K, set apart via a basic practising regime then told to create new identities within the legal underworld. These identities had been called Legends.

Forsyth’s banner Tannadice Photos will manufacture the project (Tannadice is segment of Goal Media community, an All3Media company). Forsyth will exec manufacture alongside Ben Farrell (“The Gold”) and Lion Television’s Richard Bradley. Charlie Leech (“The Gold”) produces.

“I’m very furious with a notion to remark this unbelievable legend, along with all people at Tannadice Photos,” said Forsyth. “I mediate ‘Legends’ is an piquant, consuming, unknown British legend that deserves to be told in stout. I’m elated that Netflix agreed.”

Mona Qureshi, director of U.K. boom material at Netflix, added: “As such followers of Neil’s ‘The Gold,’ we had been without lengthen furious by the probability of the unprecedented legend of Legends in his hands. Transporting us abet to Nineties Britain, the set apart the authorities used to be shedding its fight in what used to be a global wrestle on medicine, Neil’s scripts introduce us to a compelling ensemble of characters, whose surprising journeys into the unhealthy labyrinth of undercover operations promise a consuming, movement-crammed sequence that sits in essentially top-of-the-line tradition of U.K. crime tales. We are in a position to’t pause conscious for ‘Legends’ to reach to life on Netflix.”