By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Actors Jon Bernthal, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles are set to characteristic in HBO’s new restricted sequence “We Own This City”. The present hails from “The Wire” staff of David Simon and George Pelecanos, who will write and govt produce, reported Deadline.
Reinaldo Marcus Green of “Monsters and Men” will direct and govt produce the sequence, based mostly on Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton’s e-book “We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption”.
The six-episode present is in regards to the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force, and the corruption and ethical collapse that befell an American metropolis by which the insurance policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest had been championed on the expense of precise police work.
Bernthal will star as Sergeant Wayne Jenkins of the Baltimore Police Department, maybe the central determine within the sprawling federal corruption case that centred on the company’s Gun Trace Task Force. The plainclothes unit went fully rogue and commenced searching and robbing residents and drug sellers alike as a long time of a relentless drug battle and mass incarceration in Baltimore spun wildly uncontrolled.
Hector will essay the function of Sean M Suiter, a Baltimore City Homicide detective who was caught up within the GTTF case and known as to testify earlier than a federal grand jury. Charles will play Daniel Hersl, a cocky, swaggering cop recognized amongst Baltimore residents for his informal brutality who was the topic of a number of citizen complaints.
Nina Okay. Noble, Kary Antholis and Ed Burns are additionally govt producers on the present which is able to begin manufacturing in July.
