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- Kevin Walsh is producing Reasonable People, a Hatfield-McCoy-style suburban feud drama directed by Cory Finley with Paul Rudd as an architect and Sam Rockwell as his drifter brother, going to market seeking backers.
- Casey Affleck will star in The Hawk, his first major TV series vehicle — a Hulu crime thriller written by Dave Collard, adapted from Brian Haig's book series about JAG lawyer Sean Drummond who has 72 hours to unravel a conspiracy.
- Hulu has ordered additional scripts beyond the pilot for The Hawk with an eye toward greenlighting at the start of next year, part of a TV slate Walsh assembled under TV group head Danny Feldheim.
- Being Heumann, Walsh's TIFF opening-night premiere directed by Sian Heder, chronicles Judy Heumann's 28-day takeover of a San Francisco federal building to force accessibility legislation; Apple staked the project from the start.
- The Being Heumann production employed 12 disabled leads and 40 disabled cast members on certain days, requiring retrofitted 1977-period wheelchairs, on-demand masseuses, and custom lift-equipped, door-modified makeup trailers.
- Walsh previously ran film for Ridley Scott's Scott Free before establishing Apple as his base; his slate also includes Hikari's Foster The Snowman and Justin Lin's That Man From Rio starring Sydney Sweeney.
Why it matters: Walsh emerges as a significant Apple-aligned prestige producer following the TIFF debut of Being Heumann, positioning the streamer for another potential awards-season sleeper while expanding Walsh Co's scripted slate across theatrical (Reasonable People) and streaming (The Hawk) territory with A-list talent.
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