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Image Comics' Southern Bastards is officially getting a pilot episode from Hulu, and a critically acclaimed director is at its helm.
Per Deadline, Jason Aaron and Jason Latour's hit 2014 comic book series Southern Dogs has officially received a pilot order from Hulu. The upcoming pilot will be written and executive produced by Ozark co-creator and writer Bill Dubuque and Nia DaCosta, the critically acclaimed writer-director of 2021's Candyman, 2023's The Marvels, and the recently released Hedda starring Tessa Thompson. DaCosta is also attached to direct the Southern Bastards pilot.
The Southern Bastards pilot will be overseen by Matt Olmstead as showrunner and executive producer, the co-creator and showrunner of Chicago P.D., who also serves as the showrunner of Chicago Fire. Further executive producers on Southern Bastards are original series creators Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, Gabrielle Nadig, and POV Entertainment's Layne Eskridge.
Like the Southern Bastards comic book series that debuted back in 2014, the pilot will largely revolve around Roberta Tubb, who returns to her hometown in Craw County looking for answers about her father's death and any subsequent vengeance she can find, and Euless Boss, a local high school football coach who went from winning trophies to lording over a sprawling criminal empire. Southern Bastards ran for a total of 21 issues up through its conclusion in 2018. In that time, Southern Bastards was nominated for numerous major industry awards, including the 2015 Harvey Award for Best New Series and the 2016 Eisner Awards for Best Continuing Series and Best Writer, all of which it won.
Back when Southern Bastards was released in 2014, writer and co-creator Jason Aaron spoke to CBR and explained the unmistakable influence that two of Hollywood's biggest creators had on the series. "When I talk about the Coen Brothers, it's their ability to juggle comedy and drama from scene to scene, sometimes within the same moment, and that's really hard to do," Aaron said at the time. "Just looking at some of the Coen Brothers' darkest movies, they are also some of their funniest, and that's what I'm shooting for. I think you can do comedy without losing the emotional impact, or making the characters into jokes."
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