THE WIRE Creator David Simon Is Developing A New Series About The Spanish Civil War

Creator of The Wire David Simon is back making television, and he has yet another new drama on the way about the Spanish Civil War. Variety reports the drama, tentatively called A Dry Run, is planned to be a six-hour miniseries about the Abraham Lincoln Battalion and George Washington Battalion fighting fascism during the Spanish Civil War.

Specifically, this drama will detail the account of those two American battalion's lodged in an international conflict from 1937 to 1939. Simon has reportedly been researching the event quite extensively and visiting the battle sites, so authenticity for this series should be high. Of course, we can only assume as much, as who would do such an oddly specific period piece and not shoot for authenticity?

I love The Wire and The Deuce, so I'm sure I'll love whatever this new series becomes. Can I suggest though that as opposed to "A Dry Run," we keep the theme going and call it "The War," or "The Border?"