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Yellowstone and Landman creator Taylor Sheridan has never been shy about sharing his feelings about Hollywood, whether that be in the shows he makes for Paramount+ or in his real life.
During a recent interview with Bill Simmons, Taylor Sheridan ripped the current state of Hollywood and claimed to intentionally rage-bait his critics.
Taylor Sheridan ripped the way Hollywood is currently being run and said he intentionally tries to anger his critics
“It didn’t used to be this way when Steve McQueen was a movie star at Paramount and Bobby Evans ran the studio because writers were turned loose. Directors were turned completely loose. There weren’t endless rewrites. There weren’t meetings with executives about tone and mood and all this nonsense,” Sheridan told Simmons.
“By the way, the studio executives and the network executives — these are marketing executives, for the most part. Or maybe they studied law or whatever. Then they came, got a job in the mailroom at CAA or WME, and hated that s—. So then they ended up as an intern at some network. Then, through attrition, they find themselves the head of development. Well, what do you know about developing story? You know nothing. So they get terrified, panicked that the audience won’t get it because they actually have no storytellers.”
Sheridan also went after his critics, saying that not only does he not care what they think but he also intentionally “rage-baits them a bit.”
“The critics are going to come after me. I’m underutilizing [Moore], can’t write for women, all this nonsense. Then I’m going to kill your husband and you’re going to have to run the oil company. The critics and me — I don’t care what they think, and it annoys the shit out of them that I don’t care. I’ll be the first to tell you that there are things that I do that rage-bait them a bit, and this is one of them. F— ’em, honestly.”
Given that Sheridan has such strong opinions on movies, it’d be great if he returned to the medium as a writer. For as successful as Sheridan has been on TV with Paramount — Yellowstone, 1883, Mayor of Kingstown, 1923, Tulsa King, Lioness, Landman, and The Madison — he’s a better movie writer.
Sheridan hasn’t written a movie since 2021’s Without Remorse and Those Who Wish Me Dead, the latter of which he also directed. From 2015 to 2017, however, he ripped off Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River — three of the best crime films of their decade.
He has written the script for 2027’s F.A.S.T, the feature film directorial debut of Ben Richardson, who has both acted and directed in a handful of Sheridan’s previous projects.
Currently scheduled to be released on April 23, 2027, F.A.S.T stars Brandon Sklenar, Juliana Canfield, LaKeith Stanfield, Jason Clarke, Sam Claflin, and Trevante Rhodes.