Kevin Bacon Starring in Hulu’s ‘Southern Bastards’ Pilot
Hulu‘s drama pilot Southern Bastards you could have discovered his main man.
Kevin Bacon will star in the undertaking, 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) you could have joined the pilot as director.
Southern Bastards will comply with “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 (ozarks) 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 tricky however humble Army veteran, wanting to reconnect together with his estranged daughter and never afraid to stir issues up in his hometown.
Dubuque, DaCosta and Olmstead are government 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 inventive executives Hannah Baker and D’Angelo Louis will oversee manufacturing.
Bacon’s latest credit embody 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 embody Bob Marley: One Love, Top Boy and the upcoming Disney+ particular The Punisher: One Last Kill. He is repped by WME, Granderson des Rochers and ID.