Erin Kellyman (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple) and Tim McGraw (1883) are set to star alongside Kevin Bacon in Southern Bastards, the recently announced Hulu drama pilot from director/executive producer Reinaldo Marcus Green.
Kellyman will play the role of Roberta, with McGraw as Coach Boss. Bacon plays Earl, as previously announced.
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.
Kellyman’s Roberta is a former marine who is facing charges by the military after an incident in Afghanistan. Intelligent and psychologically complex, she’s constantly trying to understand and outrun her generational trauma and inherited violence. When Roberta comes
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