"And writing about my life and community has brought me on to their team to build We Own This City.” “My real life and my community intersected with The Wire, long before I met the people responsible for making it," Watkins told the We Own This City podcast. Watkins, an acclaimed author who grew up on the streets of Baltimore and who, after becoming involved in drugs as a youth and losing his brother at 18, saw his own life reflected in the original show. "After I read the manuscript, I said, ‘Well, I will, but on the condition that I can bring in David Simon and our other partner, Nina Noble, and some writers from The Wire‘, because I thought it’s good karma to bring everybody back together to revisit the city as we did 20 years ago.” “Somebody from HBO called me and said, ‘Would you like to adapt this (Fenton’s book ‘We Own This City’) for a mini-series?’, Pelecanos said in an interview with Decider. We Own This City brings Simon and Pelecanos back to their old stomping ground of Baltimore, along with former writers and cast members of The Wire. The Wire was groundbreaking TV, running for 5 seasons from 2002 to 2008 focusing on the war on drugs as seen from the point of view of both the police and the criminals of Baltimore.
We Own This City isn't just set in the same Police Department as The Wire - it’s created by The Wire's showrunners David Simon and George Pelecanos.
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