Billy Bob Thornton Set As Lead In ‘Land Man’, Zoe Saldaña To Star In ‘Lioness’ & ‘1883’ Gets New Season, Spinoff As Paramount+ Grows Taylor Sheridan Universe
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Taylor Sheridan remains a busy man.
Paramount+ has unveiled a slew of news across its Sheridan Universe, withBilly Bob Thornton officially set as lead forLandMan, which Mike Flemingteased in his big Sheridan interview last year.
Zoe Saldaña will star inLioness and will exec produce alongside Nicole Kidman and others.
Yellowstone prequel1883 is getting a second season as well as a new spinoff,1932,which will follow a new generation of Duttons during the time of Western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression.
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Thornton will star as a crisis manager for an oil company, which is based on theBoomtown podcast.
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Land Man,which is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, is a modern day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping the climate, the economy and geopolitics.
It will be executive produced by Sheridan, David Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, Geyer Kosinski and David Hutkin. Dan Friedkin and Jason Hoch from Imperative Entertainment and Scott Brown and Megan Creydt from Texas Monthly also exec produce. It begins production in 2023.
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Lioness is based on a real-life CIA program and follows a Marine recruited to befriend the daughter of a terrorist to bring the organization down from within. Saldaña stars as Joe, a strong-willed, hard-nosed station chief of the CIA’s Lioness Program who is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives working to assassinate the world’s most dangerous terrorists.
It will be exec produced by Sheridan, Glasser, Burkle, Yari and Hutkin alongside Kidman via her production company Blossom Films, Saldaña, Kosinski and Jill Wagner and showrunner Tom Brady. Production will begin in June.
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Tulsa King will being production in March and premiere in the fall, whileBass Reeves, starring David Oyelowo, remains in development.
The series comes from MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios.
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24 Comments
- Sid Pachter
I saw two or three episodes of 1883. Were there more?
- Anonymous
10 in total
- David E
If 1883 is any indication, Sheridan has jumped the shark.
Billy Bob is an amazing talent
Saldana is an amazing talent
Yet 1883 turned amazing talent Sam Eliott into a conflicted simp, and promotes a couple of boring ‘has been’ country singers as actors, and together are a wonder how they have not bored each other to death. 1883 predicated upon some revisionist view of the historical west through the eyes of a promiscuous teenage girl that has a Feminist point of view idiotucally out of place,rather than creating a tinely strong compelling realistic woman character.
I enjoy very much some of Sheridan’s work, in fact it is brilliant, yet after season 4 the “Who shot JR’ season of Yellowstone the product has been inferior Opinions may vary.
Too many branding irons in the fire?
I was a believer now a skeptic.- Anonymous
Well the world disagrees with you so?
- Anonymous
Taylor Sheridan might have some writing talent but he has stolen 75% of his ideas from Steven Knight’s “Peaky Blinders.”
- Anonymous
He’s already written far more than Stephen Knight across several genres and decades. Taylor Sheridan is far more impressive and simply outworks everyone. Give it a rest.
- Gail Denison
Your missing out on alot of viewers because its only showing on Paramount+ SO SAD
- Anonymous
Taylor Sheridan is making the same mistakes Greg Berlanti did. I’m sure the money is nice but the quality of shows get watered down when you’re focus is divided.
- Anonymous
I’m not sure if you know or not but Taylor Sheridan’s contract says that he has to produce so many shows a year. So blame Viacom for it
- Anonymous
The difference is Sheridan is talented.
- Anonymous
And Berlanti is making about $200 million more than Sheridan
- Anonymous
20 minutes of screen time where we see white men riding horses, getting drunk, in every episode of “Yellowstone.” Cowboys killing men and then dumping their bodies off the side of a mountain isn’t great writing.
- Anonymous
Greg Berlanti has over 20 TV Shows currently on the air. No one is questioning his talent but he’s spread too thin.
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