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Idris Elba to Executive Produce Drama Series ‘Brazza’

Actor Idris Elba attends the world premiere of the Paramount Pictures title “Star Trek Beyond” at Embarcadero Marina Park South on July 20, 2016 in San Diego, California.
Actor Idris Elba attends the world premiere of the Paramount Pictures title “Star Trek Beyond” at Embarcadero Marina Park South on July 20, 2016 in San Diego, California.

*Idris Elba will delve into the criminal underworld of the Republic of the Congo for his next scripted series.

The actor is teaming with Germany’s Tandem Productions and Havas Media’s Save Ferris in France on “Brazza,” described as a drama in the vein of Netflix’s “Narcos,” but set in the criminal underworld of Brazzaville, the capital of Republic of the Congo, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The story follows a Congolese man living in Paris who is forced to return home after his father dies under suspicious circumstances. Back home he gets drawn into a bloody family feud that threatens the country’s uneasy truce.

“I am so proud to be working on this African set drama and to introduce a global audience to a world and culture that resonates so vibrantly with me,” said Elba.

Paul Viragh (“Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”) is attached to write the series.

Elba and the development team at Green Door will executive produce Brazza together with Tandem’s Rola Bauer and Tim Halkin and Jean-Charles Felli and Christophe Tomas of Save Ferris.

“Brazza will be a visceral series exploring one family’s feud across Africa and Europe,” said Bauer. “Idris’ lens into this narrative is quite inspirational and as Africa awakens, marching boldly into the first world, we could not have asked for better partners in Idris and his team, as well as our cousins at Save Ferris.”

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