The next big Western drama from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan promises to feature some serious Hollywood star power.
A spinoff of the original Kevin Costner series is close to finalizing deals with Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, TVLine reported on Thursday.
The Batman Returns actress, 66, and the Hateful Eight actor, 73, are in talks to star alongside Suits vet Patrick J. Adams, 42.
The new show, initially called 2024 but now titled The Madison, is rumored to center on wealthy matriarch Stacy Clyburn and her family, per the outlet. Following the tragic deaths of her husband and brother-in-law in a plane crash, the Clyburn family leaves New York City and relocates to Montana.
Production on the spinoff is set to begin later this month in Montana, New York, and Texas. It is expected to premiere in 2025 after Season 5B of Yellowstone, which kicks off November 10 without Costner, concludes.
The show’s cast, still being finalized, is also expected to feature Beau Garrett (The Good Doctor, Firefly Lane), according to the outlet.
Last fall, Paramount Network greenlit a Yellowstone sequel, originally titled 2024, set to star Matthew McConaughey.
The series was expected to potentially include Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, and Luke Grimes reprising their roles as Beth Dutton, Rip Wheeler, and Kayce Dutton.
It remains uncertain if Russell will take on McConaughey’s intended role or portray an entirely new character.
The news comes after Demi Moore shared the first photos from her upcoming show Landman, brought to life by Yellowstone’s Sheridan.
The photo captures Demi in a striking gown, attending a gala dinner with her co-star Jon Hamm, who looks dashing in a suit and tie.
‘Meet Cami Miller. First look at @landmanpplus – premiering November 17 on @paramountplus!,’ the St. Elmo’s Fire alum captioned the still.
In Landman, Demi portrays the formidable wife of Jon’s oil tycoon Monty Miller, set against the backdrop of a 21st-century oil boom in Texas.
‘Cami is somebody who is not involved in the business but is running their entire life,’ Demi said in a recent Vanity Fair interview. ‘They’re a couple that built this entire empire and family together.
‘Jon said to me at one point, “I think this might be the first time I’m playing a character who’s actually in a good relationship, where they actually have real love, commitment, and affection,”‘ she added.
‘Her focus is her family and their social existence. It’s the ups and downs of keeping him grounded, healthy, and safe.’
The star also gushed about Taylor, saying he ‘writes incredible, complex, dynamic and delicious women who are powerful, vulnerable, flawed.
‘Taylor works in a very unique way, and every actor that he meets with — we basically sit down, we hear what he’s looking to do, where he’s looking to go, and we have to say yes or no based on that,’ she continued. ‘There’s no script.’
She added: ‘He thinks way ahead. He’s thinking through not just one season. He’s thinking through an epic story.’
Landman, which Taylor adapted from the 2019 podcast Boomtown, also stars Billy Bob Thornton and Ali Larter.
‘Cami and Monty have done it. They’ve reached the dream. But it’s one thing to get there—it’s another to keep it. And I think Billy’s character is the one who has to do all the dirty work,’ Demi said to the outlet.
‘Billy and Ali, their dynamic is just going to be off-the-charts fantastic and kind of juicy.’
The series logline describes it as ‘an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.’
The cast includes Michelle Randolph (1923), Jacob Lofland (Joker 2), Kayla Wallace (When Calls the Heart), James Jordan (Yellowstone, Lioness), Mark Collie (Nashville) and Paulina Chávez (The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia).
Andy Garcia (Expendables franchise) and Michael Peña (End of Watch) also serve as guest stars.