Matthew Broderick To Star in Netflix's "Daybreak" Series
Oct 22, 2018
Brian Ralph's Daybreak graphic novel has a Hollywood star heading up it's Netflix series.
Matthew Broderick has joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix dramedy as Principal Burr.
Based on the graphic novel by Brian Ralph, the subversive dark comedy Daybreak finds 17 year old high school outcast Josh searching for his missing girlfriend Sam in post-apocalyptic Glendale, California. Joined by a ragtag group of misfits including a pyromaniac 12 year old Angelica and Josh's former high school bully Wesley, now turned pacifist samurai, Josh tries to stay alive amongst the horde of Mad Max-style gangs (evil jocks, cheerleaders turned Amazon warriors), zombie-like creatures called Ghoulies, and everything else this brave new world throws at him.
Published by Drawn & Quarterly, the Daybreak graphic novel (OCT181619) is now available at your local comic shop!
The ten-episode series is coming in 2019.