Hollywood Reporter:
TV’s most prolific hitmaker talks about Yellowstone ending, Kevin Costner’s exit, potential Matthew McConaughey spinoff, battles with studio suits, how he’s become powerful mega-rancher: “There is no compromising.”
Sheridan, 53, is wearing button-down shirt, rugged jacket, jeans and boots, with spurs,
Elizabeth Olsen, whom he directed in Wind River, once described Sheridan as “a cowboy who’s like a combination of your dad and the Marlboro Man.”
He owns a massive Four Sixes ranch, a property wedged up in the remote Texas panhandle. The Montana ranch in Yellowstone is fictional, but the Four Sixes, or 6666, which is also featured in the series, is real.
It covers 270,000 acres, nearly the size of Los Angeles. This place is important to Sheridan, to Yellowstone and to the rest of his TV universe.
Sheridan grew up in North Texas, where the Four Sixes is legendary. The ranch and its horse-and-cattle operation were controlled by dynastic family that battled for 150 years to protect their land and keep it intact.
Sheridan recalls: “To just get one of their horses was status symbol, because they’re so well trained. This was the ranch I based Yellowstone’s scope and operation on, because it didn’t exist in Montana. Most ranches there had already been carved up; they’d already lost it.”
Read the entire fascinating profile in HR.
