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EXCLUSIVE: Coming disconnected their characters’ antagonist narration connected Prime Video’s The Boys, Chace Crawford and P.J. Byrne are group to play brothers connected a caller series, which is successful improvement astatine nan Amazon streamer, Deadline has learned. The project, titled We Once Were Men, is written by Matt Berns, who has worked connected some The Boys and its upcoming prequel Vought Rising. It comes from erstwhile Amazon MGM Studios caput Jennifer Salke who joined nan workplace soon aft The Boys had been greenlighted and oversaw its franchise description .
The logline for We Once Were Men is being kept nether wraps. I perceive it is being described arsenic a satirical achromatic drama astir antheral personality successful collapse. Byrne and Chace will play brothers amongst a group of men seeking to rediscover their intent astatine nan extremist Reclaim Retreat that promises nan translator of nan modern man.
Crawford and Byrne executive nutrient alongside Salke, Matt Milam and Rae Bussola for Salke’s Sullivan Street Productions, Alex Dunlap (The Boys) and Charleston Chambers. The task falls nether Sullivan Street’s first-look woody pinch Amazon MGM Studios.
A rep for nan workplace declined comment.
Crawford and Byrne first starred together connected nan 2017 thriller movie Eloise. Years later, they reunited connected The Boys. Crawford starred arsenic Kevin Kohler/The Deep for its five-season tally while Byrne recurred arsenic head Adam Bourke. The Deep had a long-standing grudge against Bourke which culminated successful Supe brutally sidesplitting nan Dawn of nan Seven helmer successful nan precocious concluded last season.
Gossip Girl alum Crawford, who will adjacent beryllium seen successful nan Searchlight Pictures movie Super Troopers 3, is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.
Byrne, who is simply a bid regular connected USA Network’s The Rainmaker, based connected nan John Grisham novel, is repped by Atrium Talent and Untitled Entertainment.
Berns, Dunlap and Chambers precocious worked together connected Berns’ characteristic debut Charmers, which nan 3 wrote and produced and Berns directed. The movie is presently successful post-production. Berns was a unit writer connected nan upcoming first play of Vought Rising. Before that, he worked connected nan mothership The Boys, starting arsenic an an assistant. Berns wrote overmuch of nan series’ societal media contented including nan Audible Original The Boys: Deeper and Deeper. He is repped by WME and Jackoway Austen Tyerman et al.
Amazon MGM Studios recently acquired Sam Lansky’s psychosexual short story Good Bones for Salke’s Sullivan Street to create arsenic a TV series. The institution besides precocious acquired Kirsty Greenwood’s upcoming novel Romantic Hero, which will beryllium adapted arsenic a movie by Peter Chiarelli.
Production conscionable wrapped connected Amazon MGM Studios’ film Honeymoon pinch Harry, starring Kevin Costner, Jake Gyllenhaal and Sarah Pidgeon, which Salke is producing. She besides is simply a shaper connected Red, White & Royal Wedding, nan sequel to hit Red, White & Royal Blue, which she had commissioned successful her workplace role.
