Starz announced today that the company will develop the one-hour drama GRINGO. The project, inspired by "The Shadow Catcher," the non-fiction book by highly decorated U.S. Immigration Officer Hipolito Acosta, will chronicle a Mexican-American Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent who infiltrates one of Mexico's most deadly drug and human smuggling cartels. GRINGO is written by SPARTACUS franchise alums Aaron Helbing and Todd Helbing and Executive Produced by Steve Lee Jones (You Don't Know Jack) of Bee Holder Productions.
"GRINGO provides a thrilling and uniquely personal look into international organized crime, never seen by the American public, from the viewpoint of a federal undercover agent on the front lines," said Carmi Zlotnik, Managing Director of Starz. "We are excited to work with this team to develop GRINGO into what we think could make for incredibly compelling television."