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Kevin Bacon (Family Movie) is group to lead Southern Bastards, a caller Hulu play aviator from director/executive shaper Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard).
Based connected nan award-winning schematic caller bid by Jason Aaron & Jason Latour, who service arsenic exec producers, Southern Bastards follows a tenacious subject vet into Craw County, Alabama, successful hunt of her estranged father. What she finds is simply a murderous hornet’s nest of organized crime tally by nan winningest precocious schoolhouse shot coach successful nan South.
Bacon plays Earl, nan boy of nan legendary Sheriff Bert, who ruled Craw County pinch an robust fist. Earl is simply a reliable but humble blue-collar service seasoned — eager to mend fences and reconnect pinch his daughter, and not acrophobic to operation nan hornet’s nest that is Craw County.
Southern Bastards hails from Onyx Collective, POV Entertainment, and Proximity Media, successful relation pinch Fifth Season. Sharing communicative in installments present pinch Nia DaCosta, Ozark’s Bill Dubuque penned nan teleplay and is exec producing alongside Matt Olmstead, who will besides service arsenic showrunner, arsenic good arsenic Aaron, Latour, and Green. Other EPs see 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, pinch Proximity’s imaginative executives Hannah Baker and D’Angelo Louis besides group to oversee nan project.
Coming disconnected nan SXSW premiere of Family Movie, a scary drama he directed, wherever he stars other woman Kyra Sedgwick, arsenic good arsenic his kids Sosie Bacon and Travis Bacon, Bacon is repped by Mgmt Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Best known for directing nan tennis play King Richard chronicling nan emergence of sisters Venus and Serena Williams, which earned six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and won Best Actor for Will Smith, Green much precocious directed and co-wrote Bob Marley: One Love, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, which grossed complete $180M worldwide. Coming up adjacent for merchandise is his Marvel tv typical The Punisher: One Last, retired connected Disney+ connected May 12. He’s repped by WME and Granderson des Rochers.
