Jon Bernthal to create and star in his passion project for Amazon: The Bottoms

The Hollywood Reporter

The former Walking Dead star has been quietly working on The Bottoms for a decade. Details on his role haven't been revealed, but The Bottoms "will follow the interconnected systems of family structures, friends and neighbors, law enforcement, and criminality all intersecting in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the early '90s," per The Hollywood Reporter. "Set in a particularly wild corner of the Deep South, the show will examine the inflection points, the blurred lines and the human cost on all sides." Bernthal created The Bottoms, but will co-write it with former Burn Notice writer Ben Watkins.