‘Breakers’: ‘The Boys’ Star Antony Starr to Lead Netflix’s New Surfing Series!!

The ocean is calling for Antony Starr. Ahead of the fifth and final season of The Boys in April, the dark superhero show’s Homelander is trading his suit in for a surfboard for the new series, Breakers, at Netflix. It’ll be Starr‘s first leading role on television since he first broke out as the vicious supe on the Eric Kripke-helmed Prime Video series in 2019, and looks to be his next big small-screen project after wrapping his time in the comic adaptation. So far, he’s the only cast member attached, but expect the beach to keep filling out very soon as the project has begun production in Western Australia. It’s set to continue filming through June.

Created by Somewhere Boy and The Death of Bunny Munro writer Pete Jackson, Breakers follows two best friends who go backpacking through Australia together, only to stumble upon an idyllic, tight-knit surfing community. They’re quickly drawn into the group, led by a charismatic stranger named Brando, played by Starr, and get caught up in the sun-soaked fun. From the sound of it, though, there’s much more to this community and its mysterious leader than just riding the waves. For Netflix, it’ll be a bit of a groundbreaking series, as it’s the first for the streamer to be shot in Western Australia, ensuring that the scenery will be authentic to Down Under and its gorgeous beaches.

Breakers reunites Netflix with BBC Studios’ Clerkenwell Films, the banner behind one of the platform’s biggest recent success stories, Baby Reindeer. Clerkenwell is working in partnership with BBC Studios Productions Australia on the new series, with executive producers including Jackson, Gavin O’Grady, Petra Fried, and Wim De Greef. On the creative end, Jackson is also joined by Industry‘s Mary Nighy and What It Feels Like for a Girl’s Ng Choon Ping, who both serve as directors.

What Else Does Starr Have Lined Up After ‘The Boys’?

Homelander has been a star-making turn for Starr, letting him become one of television’s most hated and downright wicked villains throughout the five-season run of The Boys. He’s since brought that nefarious energy to film, playing a complicated, abusive parent opposite Lizzie Caplan in the 2023 horror flick Cobweb and facing off with Viola Davis‘s badass President of the United States as an Australian Special Forces leader turned terrorist in the actioner G20. On the horizon, though, he has a very different project lined up in the Neon biopic Samo Lives, about famed neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. He’s set to appear in the recently-wrapped project as Pop Art icon Andy Warhol opposite Kelvin Harrison Jr.’s Basquiat.