Nine months after giving a straight-to-series order to Bastards, which was to star Richard Gere as a Vietnam vet who develops a hankering for vigilante justice, Apple TV+ has scrapped its plans for the drama.
Based on the Israeli series Nevelot, Bastards was to follow “two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved 50 years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.”
Bastards was one of at least 23 series in various stages of development for the Apple TV+ streaming service, which is set to launch this fall.
