Deadline is reporting that Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, The Punisher, Those Who Wish Me Dead), Emmy nominee Josh Charles (The Good Wife, Away, The Loudest Voice), and Jamie Hector (The Wire, Bosch, Queen of the South) will star as the lead’s in HBO’s six-hour limited series We Own This City, based on Justin Fenton’s book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption.
We Own This City will be written by Simon, Pelecanos, and Dwight Watkins along with The Wire writers Ed Burns and Bill Zorzi.
King Richard, starring Will Smith and releasing on November 19, and Amazon’s drama series The Bottoms, created, co-written by, and starring Bernthal.
The series will mark the third collaboration between Bernthal and Green, following Warner Bros.’