The first season of Narcos was a huge hit for Netflix and gave the world both a 10-part examination of Pablo Escobar’s rise to power and one of the greatest promotional images of all time, in which it kind of looks like someone asked Pablo Escobar if that’s millions of dollars worth of cocaine behind him and Pablo Escobar replied “Maybe…” And now the show’s executive producer, José Padilha, has found his next television project: The Brand, a new series he is developing with Showtime that will focus on the murderous Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.
The limited series, if it makes it to the screen, will run for 10 episodes and be based on David Grann’s 2004 New Yorker article with the same title. The article is behind the New Yorker paywall right now, but the summary contains passages like “they may be the most murderous criminal organization in the United States” and “I don’t like violence, but I am good at it,” as well as references to the gang making bombs and killing sheriff’s deputies and “books by Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and Nietzsche which are given to new members.”
Padilha is also on-board for the second season of Narcos, which is set to be released at some as-yet-unspecified point this year. So, once he gets done making his show about a government attempting to bring down the world’s most famous fugitive, he’ll switch gears and make a show about a government attempting to bring down the world’s deadliest prison inmates. The man has range!
(Via Deadline)
