Exclusive: Mario Tabraue, one of the controversial characters in Netflix’s Tiger King and a former drug trafficker widely hailed as the inspiration for Al Pacino’s Tony Montana in Scarface, is to be the subject of a limited series.

The Traveling Picture Show Company (Tpsc), the company behind Bryan Bertino’s horror feature The Dark & The Wicked, has acquired Tabraue’s life rights and teamed with Anonymous Content to develop the drama project.

Adam Penn, who has written on American Horror Story and Mr. Robot, is writing the series, which will follow Tabraue’s life from his younger days through his drug trafficking and prison years all the way up to present day.

A Cuban American kingpin of a Miami drug empire, Tabraue spent more than a decade in prison on charges of racketeering and narcotics counts. During his trial, testimony alleged that he’d once attempted to dismember...