Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNetflix has ordered the new series “Florida Man,” starring Edgar Ramírez and created by Donald Todd.The eight-episode series, described in the same vein as “Body Heat” and Elmore Leonard’s “Out of Sight,” revolves around a struggling ex-cop who is “forced to return to his home state of Florida to find a Philly mobster’s runaway girlfriend… what should be a quick gig becomes a spiraling journey into buried family secrets, and an increasingly futile attempt to do the right thing in a place where so much is wrong.”Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan are executive producing for Aggregate under their first-look deal at the streaming service.Todd, who will also serve as executive producer and showrunner of the hour-long.
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