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

The collection can be purchasable to Netflix subscribers in 2017.

Netflix is jumping on the El Chapo bandwagon.

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

Univision Story condominium, the brand new building and construction arm of Univision Communications, Inc., along side the streaming platform will co-produce the collection, which could be attainable to Netflix subscribers in the U.S. after its first airing on UniMas in 2017. in the leisure of the area, episodes of El Chapo will choicest exclusively on Netflix. 

"El Chapo is a good illustration 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-successful news and investigations gives us interesting and creative methods to inform studies in a method no other community can," said Randy Falco, president and CEO of Univision Communications Inc. "we're completely happy to carry this groundbreaking sequence to audiences within the U.S. and everywhere."

"we are thrilled to partner with the award-profitable Univision Story residence on the timely and globally primary drama collection in keeping with the life story of El Chapo," brought Netflix's chief content material officer Ted Sarandos.

The sequence would be a part of #Cartel, a further drama established on the drug kingpin (paradoxically, from former Narcos showrunner Chris Brancato) that's in the works at heritage, should or not it's ordered to series.

El Chapo made headlines in January for his trap, escape from penitentiary and recapture, no longer to point out his clandestine meeting with Sean Penn and actress Kate del Castillo. He most currently become the field of a Reelz documentary, El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle.