Hulu’s Onyx Collective has ordered a pilot for a series adaptation of the “Southern Bastards” graphic novels, Variety has learned.
Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, who created the original comics, are executive producing. Bill Dubuque wrote the teleplay and executive produces in addition to sharing a co-story credit with Nia DaCosta. DaCosta will also direct the pilot in addition to executive producing via The Once and Future Inc. Matt Olmstead will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Layne Eskridge executive produces via POV Entertainment, with Proximity Media and Gabriel Nadig executive producing as well.
The logline for the project states that it 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.”
“Southern Bastards” was originally released between 2014 and 2018. The series has received good reviews from both critics and audiences, winning the Harvey Award for best new series in 2015 and multiple Eisner Awards in 2016.
Dubuque is perhaps best known for co-creating the hit, Emmy Award-winning Netflix series “Ozark,” which aired for four seasons at the streamer. He shared in the show’s three nominations for best drama series between 2019 and 2022. He is also currently prepping the crime drama “M.I.A” at Peacock. In film, Dubuque is known for writing features such as “The Judge,” “A Family Man,” and both “The Accountant” and “The Accountant 2.”
“Southern Bastards” will mark the second TV project that DaCosta has directed. She previously directed two episodes of the critically-acclaimed British series “Top Boy.” She is best known for her work in film, having directed and written features such as “Hedda” starring Tessa Thompson, the MCU pic “The Marvels,” the Jordan Peele reboot of “The Candyman,” and her debut film “Little Woods.” Up next, DaCosta is directing the highly-anticipated sequel “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.”
Olmstead co-created the hit shows “Chicago Med” and “Chicago PD,” the former of which is in its 11th season and the latter of which is in its 13th. He has previously been the showrunner on series such as “Prison Break,” “NYPD Blue,” “Chicago Fire,” and “FBI International.”
Dubuque is repped by CAA and Goodman Genow. DaCosta is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, Casarotto Ramsay, and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka. Olmstead is repped by WME and Goodman Genow. Aaron and Latour are repped by Angela Cheng Caplan and Harris Miller. Eskridge is repped by WME.
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