Apple TV is officially revving up its answer to FX‘s Sons of Anarchy, and it’s reunited with one of its recent stars to do it. Jason Momoa is now set to lead Nomad, a new biker drama from Kurt Sutter and Chris Collins. It’ll mark the latest team-up for the streaming service and the A Minecraft Movie star, who recently toplined its Hawaii-set epic Chief of War to strong reviews earlier this year. Both Sutter and Collins are set to pen the pilot, though Collins will take the reins as showrunner. All three will also executive produce the series, with Sutter working through his SutterInk banner, Generator Entertainment, and Momoa and Brian Mendoza through On the Roam.
Nomad will whisk Momoa to New Zealand and into the violent criminal underworld of outlaw bikers. In the middle of the ruthless setting, a lone warrior is torn between two lives and two families and forced to choose the path down which his destiny truly lies. Little else is known about the show, but expectations are high given that it’ll have two creatives adept at capturing the lives of outlaw motorcycle riders. Sutter debuted Sons of Anarchy back in 2008, enrapturing audiences with the story of a tight-knit motorcycle club slipping further into lawlessness and the single father at the center of it all, who is caught between a life of crime with the group he’s known for so long and his family. Collins was a frequent writer and producer on the five-time Emmy-nominated program, also earning credits as a writer on John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and The Wire.
Momoa is a perfect fit to enter the world of Nomad, given his own history as a motorcycle enthusiast. That side of him has been shown at least in part on his Discovery documentary series, On the Roam, in which he journeys around the country, often on his own chopper, to immerse himself in the lives of real craftspeople and learn about their passion. He’s entering the series coming off one of his biggest films to date in A Minecraft Movie, which teamed him with Jack Black for a video game adventure that grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide. Warner Bros. wasted no time in ordering up a blocky sequel for 2027, one of five massive titles Momoa has on the horizon alongside Fast X: Part 2 the same year, Dune: Part Three, which just wrapped production, Street Fighter, and, most notably, Supergirl on June 26, 2026, which will finally let him live out the dream of playing the interstellar bounty hunter Lobo opposite Millie Alcock‘s Kara Zor-El.
‘Nomad’ Isn’t Sutter’s Only Upcoming Project
Sutter has kept laser-focused on his major projects since dominating television with Sons of Anarchy. In 2018, he and Elgin James joined forces to debut Mayans M.C., set in the same world of his original motorcycle epic. With that series ending in 2023, however, he’s turned his gaze to new ideas. His biggest undertaking of late has been The Abandons at Netflix, a western series starring Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson as warring matriarchs of rival families set to release on December 4. Sutter left the production back in 2023 amid creative disputes with the streamer, but his fingerprints are still all over the show, as it stems from an idea he had well before even his biggest motorcycle hit. A return to the type of story that made him a television favorite, however, is sure to draw plenty of attention as it gets underway.
via Collider