Deadline reports that a bounty hunter series by one of the highest-grossing directors, Michael Bay (Coyote Ugly, Bumblebee), and BAFTA-nominated writer and showrunner, Joe Barton (The Ritual, Enounter), is currently in development for Prime Video and from A+E Studios. The action drama series is created and written by Barton and directed by Bay as well as produced by A+E Studios, Amazon Studios, and Ranger Studios.
It is currently untitled and is said to follow an American Bounty hunter as he struggles for survival after the man he was chasing gets them both in trouble with the Mexican cartel. Barton told Deadline he was inspired to create this series five years ago while in Costa Rica with a former U.S. federal agent who supported his life in Costa Rica by catching “Bad Gringos” in South America.
Along with Barton, the series will be executive produced by Brad Fuller (The Purge, Ouija) of Wise Entertainment, Platinum Dunes, and Range Media Partners. The untitled series has been in production at Amazon for a while and is similar in both plot and timeline to an upcoming Netflix series, by Imagine Television, based on Kevin Sieff’s Washington Post Story “A U.S. Murder Suspect Fled to Mexico. The Gringo Hunters are Waiting”.
Barton created and executive produced Giri/Haji, a crime drama for BBC and Netflix, and is creating and executive producing sci-fi series The Lazarus Project for Sky/HBO Max. At the moment, he is developing a limited series based on Amadeus, an Oscar-winning film by Miloš Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Man on the Moon), for Sky Atlantic. Barton also wrote the most recent Cloverfield sequel for Paramount Pictures and produced by Bad Robot.
Bay has directed box-office hits and blockbusters like the Transformers and Bad Boys franchises, Armageddon, and recently directed Universal Pictures’ Ambulance starring Eiza González (Baby Driver, Bloodshot), Yahya Abdul Mateen II (Candyman, Watchmen), and Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain, Spider-Man: Far From Home).