Taylor Sheridan is officially on his third show of the year with the recent premiere of Dutton Ranch, the Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly-led spin-off set after the events of the Yellowstone series finale. Sheridan first returned to the Yellowstone universe earlier in the year with Marshals, the Luke Grimes-led spin-off that’s already been picked up for Season 2. The first season of Marshals came out around the same time as the debut season of The Madison, which stars Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer. Sheridan has already released new seasons of three different shows this year, and at least three more are on the way with Landman (starring Billy Bob Thornton), Tulsa King (starring Sylvester Stallone), and Lioness (starring Zoe Saldaña). Sheridan has become known for his TV empire under Paramount, but he got his start writing hit Neo-Western thrillers with A-list stars.
All the way back in 2015, Sheridan made his feature writing debut on Sicario, which is still viewed to this day as one of the best projects of his career. The film holds scores of 91% from critics and 85% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it also made light work of its $30 million budget, grossing a hair over $80 million at the worldwide box office. Things didn’t exactly go according to plan a few years later for the sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, which Sheridan has admitted he wasn’t even planning to make in the first place. The film earned less at the box office ($75 million) against a larger budget ($35 million), and it holds scores of 63% from critics and 66% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Both films are still handily blowing their streaming competition out of the water, though, as two of the most-watched titles in the world.
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.
It’s somewhat unclear at this time if Taylor Sheridan is writing another Sicario movie. Last year on the press tour for Weapons, Sicario, and Sicario 2, star Josh Brolin confirmed that Sheridan was working on a script, but there has been no noise or confirmed developments about the film since. Sheridan is also busy working on a new Sicario-esque crime thriller, F.A.S.T., which is coming out next year, as well as a Call of Duty movie and countless TV shows. Even if Sheridan is passively working on a new Sicario script, it may be a while before it’s put into production.
Check out Sicario on Hulu and Sicario: Day of the Soldado on VOD platforms like Prime Video, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Sheridan’s future projects.
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