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Hap and Leonard

Hap and Leonard



The project is based on the rollicking Joe Lansdale Southern noir book series about an unlikely pair of best friends and martial arts experts who struggle through misadventure, to stay on the right side of the law in1980's East Texas. The series has been greenlit for six one-hour episodes. It will begin shooting in 2015 and will air in early 2016. Produced by Sundance Studios, the series is created by director/writer Jim Mickle and writer Nick Damici, who partnered on the film adaptation of Lansdale's "Cold in July" with Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard. They have adapted the novels, novellas and short stories about white, working-class Hap Collins and black, gay Leonard Pine. Mickle will also direct. The project is executive produced by Nick Shumaker and Jeremy Platt, along with co-executive producers Joe Lansdale and Lowell Northrop and consulting producer Linda Moran. Hap Collins is a white working class laborer who spent time in federal prison as a young man for refusing to be drafted into the military and serve in the Vietnam War. Now In his late thirties, he is just barely making ends meet picking roses on an East Texas plantation. His colleague and lifelong best friend is Leonard Pine, a six-foot five, gay, black Vietnam vet with anger issues. Leonard was raised by his uncle who shunned him after learning he was gay leaving Hap as his only support in the not so progressive rural South. By turns funny and shocking, "Hap and Leonard" provides an unpredictable and side-eyed look into race, class and friendship. (Source: Sundance TV)

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Next: 1x02 -- The Bottoms (Mar/09/2016)


Hap, Leonard, Howard, Chub and Paco get their search for the lost loot underway.


Prev: 1x01 -- Savage Season (Mar/02/2016)


Hap and Leonard lose their jobs and a seductive figure from Hap's past shows up with a plan to score some major money.


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James PurefoyJames Purefoy
As Hap Collins
Michael Kenneth WilliamsMichael Kenneth Williams
As Leonard Pine
Bill SageBill Sage
As Howard
Christina HendricksChristina Hendricks
As Trudy Collins
Jimmi SimpsonJimmi Simpson
As Soldier
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