Dope Thief | Apple TV+

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Update: the series has been rebaptized Dope Thief.

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Brian Tyree Henry is lining up his TV follow-up to FX’s Atlanta.

The actor, currently seen opposite Brad Pitt in the feature Bullet Train, will lead the cast of the Apple TV drama series Sinking Spring. The eight-episode drug ring drama is based on Dennis Tafoya’s book Dope Thief and is being written by Top Gun: Maverick scribe Peter Craig. Ridley Scott, whose Scott Free banner has a first-look deal with the streamer, will exec produce and direct.

Sinking Spring revolves around longtime Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard. [+]