Kevin Bacon (Family Movie) is set to lead Southern Bastards, a new Hulu drama pilot from director/executive producer Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard).
Based on the award-winning graphic novel series by Jason Aaron & Jason Latour, who serve as exec producers, Southern Bastards follows a tenacious military vet into Craw County, Alabama, in search of her estranged father. What she finds is a murderous hornet’s nest of organized crime run by the winningest high school football coach in the South.
Bacon plays Earl, the son of the legendary Sheriff Bert, who ruled Craw County with an iron fist. Earl is a tough but humble blue-collar army veteran — eager to mend fences and reconnect with his daughter, and not afraid to stir the hornet’s nest that is Craw County.
Southern Bastards hails from Onyx Collective, POV Entertainment, and Proximity Media, in association with Fifth Season. Sharing story credit here with Nia DaCosta, Ozark’s Bill Dubuque penned the teleplay and is exec producing alongside Matt Olmstead, who will also serve as showrunner, as well as Aaron, Latour, and Green. Other EPs include 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 creative executives Hannah Baker and D’Angelo Louis also set to oversee the project.
Coming off the SXSW premiere of Family Movie, a horror comedy he directed, where he stars opposite wife Kyra Sedgwick, as well as his kids Sosie Bacon and Travis Bacon, Bacon is repped by Mgmt Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Best known for directing the tennis drama King Richard chronicling the rise of sisters Venus and Serena Williams, which earned six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and won Best Actor for Will Smith, Green more recently directed and co-wrote Bob Marley: One Love, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, which grossed over $180M worldwide. Coming up next for release is his Marvel television special The Punisher: One Last Kill, out on Disney+ on May 12. He’s repped by WME and Granderson des Rochers.