Yellowstone might be coming to an end soon, but that does not mean we have to say goodbye to the Dutton family just yet.
Starring Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford, the Yellowstone prequel, 1923, will be back on Paramount+.
It serves as the origin story to Yellowstone and is also a sequel to 1883.
1923’s first season finished airing in February 2023, and it was immediately revealed that it had been renewed for a second and final season.
While producers have not yet revealed its exact air date, the cast and crew have been busy filming this year on location in places such as San Antonio, Texas.
Much like Yellowstone, the Ford and Mirren-led 1923 is set on a Montana cattle ranch run by the Dutton family. In 1923, some of the forces that could destroy the family’s property and legacy include the Great Depression, health pandemics, drought and Prohibition.
Season 1 of 1923 ended with Jacob Dutton (Ford) going up against the nefarious oil baron Donald Whitfield, played by Timothy Dalton. The oil tycoon is trying to take over the Dutton family ranch to further his own interests.
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Other stars returning to 1923 include Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, Michelle Randolph, James Badge Dale, Marley Shelton, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Jerome Flynn and Julia Schlaepfer.
The first season premiere in December 2022 was the most watched Paramount+ premiere ever in the U.S, drawing 7.4 million total viewers across Paramount+ and linear options.
Paramount+ has kept the plot of 1923 a secret, but some of its stars promised the second season will be incredible.
James Badge Dale who plays John Dutton Sr. and his onscreen wife Marley Shelton, what to expect from Season 2.
“I wish we could tell you more,” Dale told Newsweek last year. “What we’re looking at here is a 16-hour movie. It’s just so big and so grand, and Taylor [Sheridan], he loves his work and it’s a work of passion.”
Shelton added, “This format is incredible and lends itself to be able to do a much deeper dive into this time in American history, that you wouldn’t get to tell in such a deep, epic way if it were a 90 or 120-minute movie.”
As for the show’s stars, Harrison and Mirren, they relished getting to work together again after first starring in the 1986 movie adaptation of Paul Theroux’s novel The Mosquito Coast.
“I think the fact that we’d worked together before absolutely informed the moment we saw each other,” Mirren told Newsweek in 2023. “‘Hello, Harrison, how are you? How have you been?’ [He responded] ‘I’m great. How are you, Helen? Nice to see you.'”
“And we were immediately just kind of weirdly connected at the hip and loving each other. We’re very, very close to each other now and I think that really manifests itself on the screen,” Mirren said.
“What you see on the screen is very similar to how we are now off the screen, except we don’t get into bed together,” she added.
