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The success of Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western series Yellowstone and its many spin-offs has rubbed off not only onto his other work, but also the genre as a whole. Several stars and studios have actively produced neo-Western films and series that tackle similar themes, but few have had the success that Sheridan has seen. For instance, Yellowstone star Kevin Costner headlined the neo-Western movie Let Him Go and self-funded his passion project Horizon: An American Saga — neither performed as well as he’d have liked. More recently, Aaron Eckhart starred in a neo-Western of his own; the movie didn’t make much of an impact during its initial release last year, but has found incredible success upon its debut on the Hulu streaming service.
The movie, which reportedly cost $4 million to produce, was directed by Jesse V. Jackson, who is best known for a bunch of Scott Adkins action movies. Eckhart’s new film, in which he plays a lone lawman who uncovers a plot to smuggle cattle across the border, also features Devon Sawa and Lochlyn Munroe. The movie doesn’t have a Rotten Tomatoes score yet, although it does have a not-too-encouraging 5.1/10 rating on IMDb. In the last half-decade, Eckhart has starred almost exclusively in direct-to-digital potboilers with titles like Wander, Ambush, The Bricklayer, Rumble Through the Dark, Classified, Chief of Station, and two movies in the Muzzle franchise. The first film, Muzzle, comes with the tagline “Vengeance Is Off the Leash,” while the sequel, Muzzle: City of Wolves, bears the tagline “Revenge Has a New Breed.”
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.
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.
Eckhart rose to fame with roles in Neil LaBute’s In the Company of Men and Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking. He went on to play Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, which remains arguably his most well-known performance. Next up, Eckhart will star in a shark movie directed by Renny Harlin and also featuring Ben Kingsley. His 2025 neo-Western is titled Thieves Highway. According to FlixPatrol, it was the number one movie on Hulu over the weekend, outperforming titles such as The Devil Wears Prada, The Beekeeper, and Predator: Badlands.
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