El Chapo Drama collection within the Works From Netflix and Univision - Hollywood Reporter

The collection might be available to Netflix subscribers in 2017.

Netflix is jumping on the El Chapo bandwagon.

The streamer is teaming with Univision on new drama sequence El Chapo, based on the lifestyles story of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Univision Story residence, the brand new development and creation arm of Univision Communications, Inc., along with the streaming platform will co-produce the sequence, which might be purchasable to Netflix subscribers in the U.S. after its first airing on UniMas in 2017. within the leisure of the realm, episodes of El Chapo will premier exclusively on Netflix. 

"El Chapo is an outstanding example of how Univision continues to innovate and evolve with top class storytelling codecs. The IP we've developed from more than 50 years of award-profitable news and investigations gives us entertaining and inventive the way to inform reviews in a way no other community can," observed Randy Falco, president and CEO of Univision Communications Inc. "we are glad to bring this groundbreaking collection to audiences within the U.S. and all over the world."

"we are thrilled to companion with the award-profitable Univision Story condo on the timely and globally imperative drama collection in response to the lifestyles story of El Chapo," delivered Netflix's chief content material officer Ted Sarandos.

The collection would be part of #Cartel, yet another drama established on the drug kingpin (sarcastically, from former Narcos showrunner Chris Brancato) that's within the works at historical past, should it's ordered to collection.

El Chapo made headlines in January for his capture, break out from jail and recapture, no longer to mention his clandestine assembly with Sean Penn and actress Kate del Castillo. He most lately was the field of a Reelz documentary, El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle within the Jungle.