Hulu orders television adaptation of comic book series Southern Bastards: Here’s everything we know about the show

Southern Bastards, the award-winning comic book series, is getting a small-screen adaptation. The 21-issue comic book series was published in April 2014, with the involvement of Jason Aaron and Jason Latour. Published by Image Comics (the same publisher of the Invincible comics), the comic is more of a grounded story set in Craw County, Alabama.

The responsibility for writing the small-screen adaptation for Hulu falls on Bill Dubuque and Nia DaCosta. If the Hulu series faithfully adapts the Southern Bastards comics, then it would follow a strong military veteran searching for her estranged father in Craw County, Alabama. Her search points to a high school football coach also involved in organized crime.

Southern Bastards ordered by Hulu:

Numerous online entertainment publications reported that Hulu has ordered a pilot for Jason Latour and Jason Aaron's acclaimed 2014-2018 comic book series, Southern Bastards. The Hulu crime drama would be Nia DaCosta's second comic book adaptation after 2023's The Marvels. DaCosta is directing the pilot episode.

Bill Dubuque is scripting the adaptation, and Matt Olmstead (showrunner of Law & Order: Organized Crime and Chicago P.D.) will serve as showrunner. If the official logline is to be believed, the Southern Bastards show will follow:

“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.”

The other EPs involved in the series include Latour and Aaron, Gabrielle Nadig, POV Entertainment's Layne Eskridge, and Nia DaCosta, under the production banner The Once and Future, Inc.

What is the comic book series about?

As mentioned earlier, the acclaimed comic book series is not a superhero comic book. Instead, it sounds like a crime drama in the vein of A History of Violence. The Jason Latour and Jason Aaron comic is a document of the two creators' complicated feelings about growing up in the South. Latour is from North Carolina, and Aaron was raised in Alabama.

The comic is set in Jason Aaron's home state, Alabama, and follows the main character raised there, returning after serving in the US Army. She returns to Craw County after finding out that her estranged father has been killed. Her investigation points towards a high school football coach, Euless Boss. The official synopsis for this comic book series reads:

"Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team...and more bastards than you've ever seen. When you're an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this...is to carry a really big stick."

As of now, the series doesn't have a release date, because the production has not begun yet.

As we wait for further announcements regarding the series, find the original comics published between 2014 and 2018.

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