THR reports that Apple TV+ won the bidding war for Bastards with “a rich offer,” with Howard Gordon of Homeland and Warren Leight of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on board as co-writers and co-showrunners.
Due to a combination of lifetimes of regrets, secrets, and a resentment of millennials, they go on a shooting spree.
Their lives are thrown off course when a women they both loved half a century ago dies.
The project was called Bastards and was slated to run for eight episodes, featuring Richard Gere as one half of a pair of Vietnam veterans and best friends.