And they liked the fact that Kevin Costner had signed on to play Yellowstone’s lead character, John Dutton. But they were impressed by the cut Glasser had shown them of Wind River-the third movie Sheridan had written about the contemporary American frontier, following Sicario (2015) and Hell or High Water(2016), and the first one of them he had directed. They were crazy to accept Sheridan’s terms. “You’re going to be writing a check for horses that’s $50–$75,000 a week.” You really want to do this? “It’s going to cost $90–$100 million,” he says he told them. There will be no notes from studio executives. I will write and direct all the episodes of the show. You will have no part in any of this, he told them-except for footing the bill. You’re going to be writing a check for horses that’s $50–$75,000 a week.” You really want to do this? But what Sheridan delivered was less a pitch than a warning. Glasser had finally gotten Sheridan in a room with Viacom executives. To coax him into attending the meeting, Glasser had to fly him there by private jet and promise him that he wouldn’t have to spend the night in L.A., a city Sheridan had come to hate. When Glasser had asked him to come to Hollywood for the pitch meeting, the screenwriter had at first refused to leave his home in Park City, Utah. Sheridan, however, was threatening to derail the whole thing. Viacom was preparing to launch a new cable channel, the Paramount Network, and it needed original shows. Still, he had pressed on.įinally, Glasser had attracted some interest. He’d helped Sheridan pry the show from HBO-taking Yellowstone to potential alternative suitors, from whom he’d gotten a series of polite, and not so polite, passes. Glasser had seen the potential in the Yellowstone script, and in Sheridan, who had left behind his career as a character actor to write full-time.
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