Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Hayley Squires (Beau Is Afraid) have on boarded Netflix thriller series Legends.
Inspired by one of the most remarkable criminal investigations ever conducted, the six-part drama follows a group of British Customs employees sent undercover to infiltrate some of the country’s most dangerous criminal drug gangs.
Aml Ameen, Jasmine Blackborow, Douglas Hodge, Tom Hughes, Johnny Harris, Gerald Kyd and Charlotte Ritchie have also joined the cast.
A plot synopsis reads: “In the early 1990s, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was losing its battle with illegal drug smuggling across Britain’s borders. The solution was extraordinary. In a top-secret operation, a small team of Customs employees were sent undercover.”
“Their task? To infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs. But these were not trained spies. They were normal men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around
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