Steve Coogan, Tom Burke and Hayley Squires have boarded Netflix’s upcoming heist collection Legends.
From the creator of BBC One’s The Gold, Legends is impressed by one of the crucial outstanding felony investigations ever carried out, following a bunch of British Customs staff despatched undercover to infiltrate a few of the nation’s most harmful felony drug gangs.
Burke, Coogan and Squires are joined by Aml Ameen (A Man in Full, Rustin), Jasmine Blackborow (The Gents, Marie Antoinette), Douglas Hodge (G20, Joker), Tom Hughes (The English, Victoria), Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow, Nice Expectations) , Gerald Kyd (The Murderer, Love Rat) and Charlotte Ritchie (YOU, Ghosts).
Present is ready within the early Nineties, when Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was shedding its battle with unlawful drug smuggling throughout Britain’s borders. In a top-secret operation, a small staff of customs staff had been despatched undercover. Their process was to infiltrate Britain’s most harmful drug gangs.
Legends comes from Neil Forsyth, who created The Gold for the BBC a few totally different heist, which starred Dominic Cooper and Jack Lowden and was picked up by Paramount+. The manufacturing staff can be related, with Forsyth and Ben Farrell producing for All3Media-backed Tannadice and Richard Bradley doing the identical for All3 stablemate Lion Tv. Administrators of Legends are Brady Hood and Julian Holmes. Sequence producer is Charlie Leech.
Legends was unveiled by Netflix eventually yr’s Edinburgh TV Competition. The Netflix UK staff is having fairly the second this week with Adolescence, which has attracted rave critiques and is sitting atop the most-watched.
