According to Deadline, a pilot order has been given for The Border, a drama series inspired by the third installation of Don Winslow’s Cartel Trilogy (2005’s “The Power of the Dog,” 2015’s “The Cartel,” 2019’s “The Border”). The pilot will begin shooting in Mexico next year under FX Productions.

Daniel Zelman (Bloodline, Damages) and Shane Salerno (Armageddon, Avatar: The Way of Water) will serve as the writers, showrunners, and executive producers of the show. Salerno, along with Winslow, Jayro Bustamante (La Llorona, Tremors), who will be directing the pilot episode, and newcomers Scott Free and Diego Gutierrez helped with the TV adaptation for The Border. Anabel Hernández will be a consulting producer on the show.

E.J. Bonilla (Gemini Man, Four) will play the protagonist, Art Keller, with supporting cast members Frank Blake (Cherry, The Passion) as Sean Callan, Annie Shapero (Unverified, Red Skies) as Nora Hayden, Sebastián Buitrón (Corral de piedra, Todo lo que no quiero) as Adan Barrera, and Luis Bordonada (Barracuda, Selena: The Series) as Miguel Angel Barrera.

The Border revolves around a fifty-year war on drugs between the United States, Mexico, and surrounding countries. Deadline says of the series: “Taking us from the streets of New York to the poppy fields of Mexico, the jungles of Central America, and The White House, The Border explodes the myths of the drug war through the intertwining narratives of characters on both sides of the Mexican-American border: an obsessive Mexican-American DEA agent, a young boxing promoter who inherits a drug empire, a jaded teenager who rises to power in the world of high class escorts, and an Irish kid from the streets of Hell’s kitchen who becomes a ruthless, international hitman.”

FX acquired the rights to Winslow’s books in 2019 after the success of the trilogy. No release date for The Border has been announced yet.