‘Nomad’: Jason Momoa, Kurt Sutter & Chris Collins Team For New Zealand Outlaw Biker Series At Apple TV

You can take Kurt Sutter out of the clubhouse, but you can’t keep him off the road. The “Sons of Anarchy” and “Mayans M.C.” creator is revving up a return to biker lore with “Nomad,” a New Zealand–set streaming series in the works at Apple TV+. Sutter will team with Jason Momoa and showrunner Chris Collins for the new drama, which is expected to channel the mythic scope of frontier storytelling through the lens of outlaw brotherhood and exile on the other side of the world.

If you’re not familiar with biker culture or gangs, the Nomads are a real group of bikers in New Zealand, not a fictional one, and were founded back in 1977 after splitting from another gang called Black Power to form their own group. They’re still apparently aligned with Black Power and the Head Hunters, another infamous biker gang, while the Mongrel Mob is said to be their main rival in that criminal world.

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The report from Deadline announcing the streaming project also includes a logline for “Nomad”:

In the violent underworld of New Zealand’s outlaw bikers, a warrior torn between two lives, two callings, and two families must decide which path defines his true destiny.

Collins, who is co-creating “Nomad” with Sutter, is coming in with his own decent credits, having worked on “John Wick 3,” HBO‘s acclaimed Baltimore crime epic “The Wire,” “The Man In The High Castle,” Sutter’s “Sons of Anarchy,” and even tackled episodes of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” of all things.

Momoa, who became a small-screen breakout thanks to “Game of Thrones,” has a longstanding creative relationship with Apple TV as they’re behind his recent Hawaiian warrior epic “Chief of War,” and the fantasy thriller “See.” On the film side, Momoa shot minor scenes as Lobo (a tough-as-nails meta alien bounty hunter and biker) in “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow,” due out in theaters next June, is expected to return for Legendary/WB‘s sequel to “A Minecraft Movie,” is expected to briefly show up in “Dune: Part Three,” and was looking to link up with director David Leitch for the high seas actioner “The Pirate.”

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As for Sutter, he has a new Western series at Netflix called “The Abandons” that sees heavyweights Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson going head-to-head in December. Given that the biker culture in New Zealand features giant hulking Maori riders covered in traditional/contemporary tattoos, they’ll certainly have a striking contrast in “Nomad” to the other bikers seen in the two previous Sutter shows.