Image Comics has announced that Hulu has ordered a pilot episode for Southern Bastards, based on the comic book series by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour.
Southern Bastards welcomes readers to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin’ Rebs football team, and more bastards than you’ve ever seen; Bastards like Earl Tubb, an angry old man with a very big stick, and Euless Boss, a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies.
When Earl comes home after 40 years, he finds some family business that still needs settlin’ and Coach Boss is at the center of it all. But that’s okay. That’s what the big stick is for, after all.
Keep in mind that a pilot order does not mean the adaptation is going to series, but rather, a single episode that will serve as a sales tool to see if there is enough interest to move ahead.
