Hulu’s drama pilot Southern Bastards has discovered its main man.
Kevin Bacon will star in the venture, primarily based on a graphic novel of the identical identify by Jason Aaron and Jason LaTour. The pilot comes from Disney’s Onyx Collective, POV Entertainment and Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media in affiliation with Fifth Season.
Along with Bacon, director Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard, We Own This City) has joined the pilot as director.
Southern Bastards will observe “a tenacious military vet into Craw County, Alabama, in search of her estranged father,” the logline reads. “What she finds is a murderous hornet’s nest of organized crime run by the winningest high school football coach in the South.” Bill Dubuque (Ozark) and Nia DaCosta (Hedda, Candyman) share story credit score on the pilot, with Dubuque writing the teleplay. Matt Olmstead (NBC’s Chicago franchise) will function showrunner.
Bacon will play Earl, the son of Craw County’s legendary Sheriff Bert, who dominated with an iron fist. Earl is described as a troublesome however humble Army veteran, desirous to reconnect together with his estranged daughter and never afraid to stir issues up in his hometown.
Dubuque, DaCosta and Olmstead are govt producing Southern Bastards with Green; Aaron and LaTour; POV Entertainment’s Layne Eskridge; and Proximity Media’s Ryan Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler. Proximity’s Simone Harris and POV’s Kate Barry are co-EPs, and Proximity artistic executives Hannah Baker and D’Angelo Louis will oversee manufacturing.
Bacon’s latest credit embrace the horror comedy Family Movie (which he additionally directed), which premiered at SXSW final month, Netflix’s Sirens and Prime Video’s The Bondsman. He is repped by MGMT, Johnson Shapiro, and Viewpoint.
Green’s directing credit additionally embrace Bob Marley: One Love, Top Boy and the forthcoming Disney+ particular The Punisher: One Last Kill. He is repped by WME, Granderson des Rochers and ID.
