Taylor Sheridan has stayed busy this year, continuing to grow his TV empire with new titles like The Madison and Marshals. The former is an original Western led by Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer that dropped all six episodes across two weeks. Paramount has already confirmed it will return for another season, though it’s still unclear at this time when the sophomore season of The Madison will premiere. Sheridan also revisited the Yellowstone universe with the debut of Marshals, starring Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton. While Marshals has ended up as the lowest-rated series Sheridan has produced so far, it’s still performing strongly on streaming charts. The show has also secured a second-season renewal, with Grimes telling Collider last month that the upcoming installment will feature an expanded episode count.
Marshals is the latest in a long line of Yellowstone spin-offs, which all lead back to 1883. The sweeping old-school American Western premiered in 2021, and although it only ran for one season, it was the first new show to expand the story of the Duttons, starring Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Sam Elliott. Yesterday, it was announced that McGraw is officially moving on from his time in the Yellowstone universe with a new Western series, Southern Bastards, which is to be led by Kevin Bacon. Erin Kellyman, famed for her work in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, has also been tapped for a role in the series. Reinaldo Marcus Green, who worked with Jon Bernthal on his upcoming Punisher special on Disney+, is directing the pilot of Southern Bastards for FX and Hulu.
What Is ‘Southern Bastards’ About?
The official synopsis for Southern Bastards, starring Kevin Bacon, Tim McGraw, and Erin Kellyman, reads as follows:
“Based on the award-winning graphic novel series by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, who serve as executive producers, Southern Bastards follows a tenacious military vet into Craw Country, Alabama, in search of her estranged father. What she finds is a murderous hornet’s nest of organized crime, run by the winningest high school football coach in the South.”
Kellyman has been tapped to play the role of Roberta, with McGraw serving as the crime boss and Bacon starring as Roberta’s father, Earl.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Southern Bastards, and check out Tim McGraw in the first season of 1883 on Paramount+.
- Release Date
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2021 – 2022-00-00
- Network
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Ron Burkle
