Created by David Simon and George Pelecanos, HBO’s ‘We Own This City’ Bows at Series Mania
variety.comMarta Balaga Just in time for the 20th anniversary of “The Wire,” celebrated during the opening of French TV festival Series Mania currently unspooling in Lille, David Simon returns to Baltimore with HBO’s miniseries “We Own This City.”Co-created with George Pelecanos and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, it focuses on true events described in Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton’s nonfiction book, chronicling the inner workings of the Gun Trace Task Force: the Baltimore Police Department unit charged with racketeering, robbery, extortion and overtime fraud in 2017.Jon Bernthal and Baltimore native Josh Charles star – as disgraced Sgt.
Wayne Jenkins and GTTF detective Daniel Hersl respectively – as well as “Succession’s” Dagmara Domińczyk, McKinley Belcher III, Jamie Hector and Wunmi Mosaku.
While the expectations are high, Hector and Mosaku are quick to point out the differences between “We Own This City” and what has become known as “the greatest TV show of all time.”“First of all, it won’t have multiple seasons.
It’s a one-off and it’s precious all on its own,” says Mosaku at Series Mania. Trying to compare them would just “add too much pressure,” says the actor, previously seen in “Loki” and “Lovecraft Country.” But Hector, known for his portrayal of drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield in “The Wire,” was looking forward to working with Simon again.“You know they are going to do it right.
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