EXCLUSIVE: With The Boys coming to an end, Antony Starr has found his next TV starring vehicle. Netflix has greenlighted Breakers, a new scripted series starring and executive produced by Starr. It comes from writer-executive producer Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy, The Death of Bunny Munro) and Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The End Of The F***ing World). Production has started in Western Australia and will wrap in June 2026.
Breakers (aka Red Bluff) follows two best friends from the U.S. who go backpacking in Australia and are soon drawn into a seemingly perfect community of surfers led by a charismatic but mysterious figure, Brando, played by Starr.
New Zealand-born Starr and Brit Jackson executive produce alongside Clerkenwell Films’ Gavin O’Grady, Petra Fried and Wim De Greef. Mary Nighy (Say Nothing, Industry) and Ng Choon Ping (What It Feels Like For A Girl, Femme) are directing. Clerkenwell Films, part of BBC Studios, is producing in partnership with BBC Studios Productions Australia Productions.
This marks the latest collaboration between Jackson and Clerkenwell. The British production company, which was acquired by BBC Studios in 2021, was also behind his two previous series, the BAFTA TV Award-nominated Somewhere Boy for Channel 4 and The Death of Bunny Munro for Sky Atlantic. Breakers also reunites Clerkenwell with Netflix where the company produced the award-winning limited series Baby Reindeer.
Breakers is the first Netflix series to shoot in Western Australia where it is supported by Screenwest and the WA Government through the Western Australian Production Attraction Incentive. The series, which will be released on Netflix globally, joins a slate of Australian films and shows — as well as projects like Breakers which originated elsewhere and are shot in Australia — that includes The Survivors, Apple Cider Vinegar, Surviving Summer and the upcoming Heartbreak High S3, My Brilliant Career, and Allen.
Starr will next be seen in the fifth and final season of Prime Video’s hit The Boys, reprising his role as Homelander, which has earned him two Critics Choice Award nominations. The season premieres April 8. He recently finished filming Neon’s Samo Lives, in which he plays Andy Warhol. Starr, whose credits also include Cinemax’s crime drama Banshee and Prime Video’s action thriller G20, is repped by UTA and Impression Entertainment.
