Apple will not be proceeding with its planned eight-episode drama series Bastards starring Richard Gere based on the Israeli format Nevelot. The project, from Howard Gordon and Warren Leight, hails…
. The project, from Howard Gordon and Warren Leight, hails from Fox 21 Television Studios, Gordon’s 20th TV-based Teakwood Lane Prods. and Keshet Studios.The series, about two Army vets going on a killing spree to avenge the death of a loved one, had been an outlier at Apple from the get-go, considered darker in tone and edgier in subject matter than the rest of the streamer’s slate.
However, Apple TV+ bosses are said to have embraced edgier content, with one of the streamer’s first series to come out,starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell, veering into darker territory. I hear that also was the case with, which Apple landed in a competitive situation almost a year ago. The original series was violent, so Apple’s commitment to the adaptation raised eyebrows when the series was first announced last December.
Yet, I hear that Apple programming executives were on board with the producers’ vision for the series. I hear that started to change once scripts started to come in. I hear there was an attempt to lighten the tone and shift the series’ creative direction, which the creative team ultimately was not comfortable doing, leading to Apple p[pulling the plug on the series, a move that was accompanied by a penalty payable to the studio.
The news comes amid persistant chatter over the past month about a possible examination of the Apple’s scripted slate by company toppers in Cupertino. So far,Written by Gordon and showrun by Gordon and Leight,whose shelving was first reported by THR, centers on two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends — one of whom is played by Gere — who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved fifty years ago is killed by a car.
Executive producing the series are Gordon, Leight, Gere, Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady and Mirit Toovi. was created by Dror Sabo with Daphna Levin and Lee Yardeni. Produced for the Israeli cable network HOT, the 2010 series was based on Yoram Kaniuk’s novel ‘Nevelot’.in 2015 with a different creative team, Sony TV, Happy Madison, Alan Poul and playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins. It did not go forward.
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