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Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone has grown considerably since its debut, but it became a proper franchise with the arrival of its first spinoff — 1883. The Yellowstone prequel series starred Sam Elliot, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill and told the story of how the Duttons came to own the land that would eventually become the Yellowstone Ranch. Taylor Sheridan had the whole ten-episode series mapped out from the beginning and knew that it would only last a single season, but apparently Paramount didn’t get the memo.
While speaking with Deadline, Taylor Sheridan revealed that Paramount had expected a second season of 1883… despite the fate of many of the characters in the prequel. “I know they read the scripts, but they don’t read scripts, so when they read the last episode of 1883, I don’t think they digested what had just happened, even though I made it quite clear from the very beginning,” Sheridan explained. “The story I heard is Bob Bakish watched it and said, ‘wait a minute, she dies! They all die? What do we do in season two?’ I said, there is no season two. They’re like, there better be a fu*king season two because we already picked it up. I’m sitting here going, guys everyone is dead.”
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It was from the ashes of the second season of 1883 that the concept for the next Yellowstone
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