“3 Body Problem” and “Better Days” filmmaker Derek Tsang is attached to direct and executive produce “Group 41,” a true-crime drama series about the first Asian-American squad at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
\n\nThe project, from Jonah Greenberg’s Salty Pictures, is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei.
\n\nThe 10-episode series, with 45-minute episodes, opens in New York in 1986. While the DEA has its sights set on Colombian cocaine cartels and the city’s “Five Families” of the Mafia, a scrappy crew of Asian-American agents teams up with a hard-charging Irish prosecutor nicknamed “The Dragon Lady.” Together they form DEA Group 41, which becomes the first squad to chase the No. 4 heroin pouring into the U.S. through a network few had noticed.
\n\nOver the next decade, the underfunded unit grows into an elite international task force. Its targets include Johnny Kon, a Hong Kong boss whose billion-dollar triad spans five continents; Johnny “Onionhead” Eng, a brutal Chinatown gangster; and Khun Sa, a warlord in the Golden Triangle with a 20,000-strong narco-army. The show explores immigration, prejudice and what the American Dream costs, with stories from both sides of the law.
\n\nGreenberg, a former managing director of…
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