TNT announced today that it has ordered a pilot for a serialized character drama focusing on cocaine and the Florida drug trade of the 1970s.

The untitled project has some Hollywood heavyweights behind it, including executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer (“CSI”) and Michael Bay (“Transformers,” TNT’s “The Last Ship”). The project comes from Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Bay Films in association with Warner Horizon Television.

Also on board are executive producers Jonathan Littman (“CSI”), Billy Corben (“Cocaine Cowboys”) and Alfred Spellman (“Cocaine Cowboys”). Michelle Ashford (“Masters of Sex”) will executive produce and write the teleplay.

Jerry Bruckheimer