13 Reasons Why star Miles Heizer is back at Netflix, and this time he is leading his own show whose working title is The Corps.
He will be portraying the character of Cameron.
The show will also star Vera Farmiga as Barbara, Cameron’s mother.
Set in 1990, The Corps is about Cameron, a bullied, gay high school student who joins the Marine Corps with his straight best friend, Ray — a dangerous move when being gay in the military meant jail time or worse. As these two friends plunge into Marine Corps boot camp, where the landmines are both literal and metaphorical, they join a platoon of young men on a harrowing journey of transformation.
The show is inspired by The Pink Marine, a memoir by Greg Cope White
Max Parker (Vampire Academy, Blood, Sex & Royalty) stars as “Sgt. Sullivan.” Sgt. Sullivan is the consummate elite Recon Marine, has been decorated for valor on numerous top-secret missions, but struggles to keep his own secret hidden. Haunted by his past, Sullivan sees himself in Cameron and tries to prepare him for the same personal war he’ll face beyond boot camp.
Liam Oh (The Notebook for Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Next To Normal for Writers Theatre) stars as “Ray McCaffey.” Ray is Cameron’s ride or die and the son of a strict Marine father. Ray carries the pressure of having to be best at all times, but when boot camp shakes his faith in himself, he is forced to reevaluate his life’s trajectory.
The rest of the cast includes:
- Cedrick Cooper (Will Trent, Naomi) will play Staff Sgt. McKinnon.
- Ana Ayora (Truth Be Told, In The Dark) will play Capt. Fajardo.
- Angus O’Brien (Night Sky, Hightown) will play Hicks.
- Dominic Goodman (First Kill, Young Rock) will play Nash.
- Kieron Moore (Masters of the Air, Vampire Academy) will play Slovacek.
- Nicholas Logan (Dark Winds, The Inspection) will play Sgt. Howitt.
- Rico Paris (Crush, Tall Girl) will play Santos.
- Blake Burt (Unhuman, The Reliant) will play John Bowman.
- Logan Gould (Days of August) will play Mo Mason.
- Zach Roerig (Dare Me, Vampire Diaries) will play Sgt. Knox.
- Johnathan Nieves (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels) will play Ochoa.
- Brandon Tyler Moore (Mayor of Kingstown, Law & Order) will play Cody Bowman.
- Ivan Hoey Jr. (NOS4A2, The Devil All The Time) will play Benjy.
- Anthony Marble (Manhunt, Preacher) will play Harlan.
- Joy Osmanski (Stargirl, 1923) will play Ji-Yeong.
The show hails from Andy Parker who was behind Tales of the City.
There will be 10 episodes in total.