‘Legends’: Steve Coogan, Tom Burke Among Cast of Netflix Thriller Series

variety.com:

Alex Ritman Tom Burke (“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” “The Souvenir”) and Steve Coogan (“Philomena,” “The Reckoning”) are among the lineup of British stars joining Netflix‘s upcoming thriller series “Legend.” Created and written by Neil Forsyth (“The Gold,” “Guilt”), the series is inspired by a real-life criminal investigations following a group of British Customs employees sent undercover to infiltrate some of the U.K.’s most dangerous criminal drug gangs.

Also joining the cast are Hayley Squires (“Beau Is Afraid,” “I, Daniel Blake”), Aml Ameen (“A Man in Full”, “Rustin”), Jasmine Blackborow (“The Gentlemen,” “Marie Antoinette”), Douglas Hodge (“G20,” “Joker”), Tom Hughes (“The English,” “Victoria”), Johnny Harris (“A Gentleman in Moscow,” “Great Expectations”), Gerald Kyd (“The Assassin,” “Love Rat”), Charlotte Ritchie (“You,” Ghosts”). “Legend” is set in the early 1990s, when Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was losing its battle with illegal drug smuggling across Britain’s borders.

Their solution was to send a small team of employees undercover. As per the synopsis: “But these were not trained spies. They were normal men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the UK, put through a basic training regime and tasked with building new identities in the criminal underworld.

These identities were called Legends.” Charlie Leech (“The Gold,” “Lovesick”) will serve as series producer while executive producers include Ben Farrell (“The Gold,” “Feel Good”) and Neil Forsyth for Tannadice, and Richard Bradley for Lion Television. .