Taylor Sheridan will leave Paramount and move to NBCUniversal
Taylor Sheridan, writer and director of the hits "Yellowstone" and "Tulsa King", is preparing to move from Paramount to NBCUniversal. According to The Hollywood Reporter, his new deal with the studio will begin with a movie contract in 2026, with a television deal to take effect after his current agreement with Paramount ends in 2028.
Sheridan remains a key figure in the industry, having helmed the TV series "1923", "1883", "Mayor of Kingstown", and "Lioness". His projects have attracted such stars as Kevin Costner, Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and Jeremy Renner to the Paramount+ platform. In this case, all rights to the created franchises remain with Paramount, which guarantees their continuation even after the departure of the writer.
After the end of cooperation with Paramount Sheridan will create new original stories exclusively for NBCUniversal. Studio executives expect his move to strengthen the company's content arm, which already employs Christopher Nolan, Seth Rogen, and Snoop Dogg.
Yes, Sheridan was a little shamed, you might say. The King of Tulsa has been rather weak in the last season and there are questions about the Mayor of Kingstown, but still clearly the man has not exhausted himself and is capable of creating something on the level of Yellowstone in the future. Somehow, the new Paramount management wasn't as cool and advanced as it was announced. They said that they would significantly increase budgets and start cutting almost blockbusters with movie stars, but in the end, on the contrary, they cut costs.
In this regard, Dexter is especially worried. The gorgeous Resurrection will continue, and that's great, but the high-quality Original Sin and all the planned spin-offs have been canceled, although Dexter was originally going to be an analog of the Yellowstone universe with many different stories scattered across time frames.
Everything is fine: Paramount conducted an audit, decided that the sheepskin coat was not worth the effort, let him rob another company better. All of Sheridan's projects are series of one season and one actor. Take away the stars of the first magnitude from his series and no one will watch them, you get average series, of which there are a lot. I think that NBC will regret signing a contract with him later, they have now cut the budgets of their projects themselves, and with his greed, no one will give Sheridan the money he demands either. Besides, it's clear that the guy is exhausted, his ideas are over, and he won't be able to milk NBC with his endless spin-offs of Yellowstone.
But at the same time, the new Paramount management was already unpleasantly surprised in a little over a month by the decisions on how easily Dexter: Original Sin was abandoned, even when fans created a petition with more than 100k signatures to save the series. For a very long time, the extension of an even more successful Resurrection was not officially announced. It will be significant when the cast of the second season of Resurrection is announced. Will there be stars of the level of Peter Dinklage, Uma Thurman, Krysten Ritter, David Dastmalchian, Neil Patrick Harris, or will they frankly save money this time?
However, often many offshoots come at the expense of quality, including the main Yellowstone suffered due to all these spin-offs, both in terms of release time with a huge break during the fifth season, and in general in terms of the level of the script. and the crumpled ending, although the main reason is the conflict between Sheridan and Costner, who was completely hacked out of the series.
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We'll wait and see.
Well, he swore and swore, they have seven Fridays a week, the question is about the price.