Erin Kellyman (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple) and Tim McGraw (1883) are set to star alongside Kevin Bacon in Southern Bastards, the not too long ago introduced Hulu drama pilot from director/govt producer Reinaldo Marcus Green.
Kellyman will play the position of Roberta, with McGraw as Coach Boss. Bacon performs Earl, as beforehand introduced.
Based on the award-winning graphic novel sequence by Jason Aaron & Jason Latour, who function exec producers, Southern Bastards follows a tenacious army vet into Craw County, Alabama, in quest of her estranged father. What she finds is a murderous hornet’s nest of organized crime run by the winningest highschool soccer coach within the South.
Kellyman’s Roberta is a former marine who’s dealing with costs by the army after an incident in Afghanistan. Intelligent and psychologically advanced, she’s continually attempting to grasp and outrun her generational trauma and inherited violence. When Roberta involves Craw County, she’s simply out for revenge, but when she’s going to alter this county for good and topple all the pieces Boss has constructed, she’s bought to place down roots and discover a dwelling within the city.
McGraw’s Coach Boss is the legendary head soccer coach of Craw County High School — the chief of his neighborhood and a fancy determine who embodies the darkish aspect of Southern soccer tradition. He’s the pinnacle of an organized crime ring that extends past his small city in Alabama, and he’s not afraid to guard his empire by any means needed.
Bacon’s Earl is the son of the legendary Sheriff Bert, who dominated Craw County with an iron fist.
Southern Bastards hails from Onyx Collective, POV Entertainment, and Proximity Media, in affiliation with Fifth Season. Sharing story credit score right here with Nia DaCosta, Ozark’s Bill Dubuque penned the teleplay and is exec producing alongside Matt Olmstead, who may also function showrunner, in addition to Aaron, Latour, and Green. Other EPs embody Layne Eskridge of POV Entertainment, and Ryan Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Zinzi Coogler of Proximity Media. Simone Harris of Proximity Media and Kate Barry of POV are co-EPs, with Proximity’s artistic executives Hannah Baker and D’Angelo Louis additionally set to supervise the challenge.
Most not too long ago seen starring reverse Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell in Sony’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Kellyman can be recognized for her work in tasks like Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great, Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s Willow, and Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, to call only a few. She is represented by CAA, Curtis Brown Group, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
A Grammy-winning nation artist who has offered over 106 million data worldwide, incomes 49 primary singles and 19 primary albums, with a current induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, McGraw has most not too long ago been seen on display in Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone and the prequel sequence 1883. Other notable credit embody Tomorrowland, The Blind Side, Four Christmases, and Friday Night Lights. He is repped by CAA and Jamie Mandelbaum of Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
