Kevin Bacon’s New Western Thriller Adds One of Taylor Sheridan’s Most Memorable Stars

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.





















































Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz
Which Taylor Sheridan
Show Do You Belong In?

Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown

Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.

🤠Yellowstone

🛢️Landman

👑Tulsa King

⚖️Mayor of Kingstown

01

Where does your power come from?
In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.




02

Who do you put first, no matter what?
Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.




03

Someone crosses a line. How do you respond?
Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.




04

Where do you feel most in your element?
Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.




05

How do you feel about operating in the grey?
Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.




06

What are you actually fighting to hold onto?
Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.




07

How do you lead?
Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.




08

Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction?
Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.




09

What has your position cost you?
Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.




10

When it’s over, what do you want people to say?
Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.




Sheridan Has Spoken
You Belong In…

The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.

🤠
Yellowstone

🛢️
Landman

👑
Tulsa King

⚖️
Mayor of Kingstown

You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.

You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.

You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.

You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.

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+.


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Release Date

2021 – 2022-00-00

Network

Paramount+

Showrunner

Ron Burkle


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