Sam Elliott attempts to bring order to the Wild West in the trailer for Yellowstone’s prequel series 1883
Country music legends Tim McGraw and Faith Hill also star in the Yellowstone prequel series
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With the expansion of production over at Paramount+, sleeper success Yellowstone now gets to enjoy what inevitably comes for any popular streaming series: A prequel. Paramount+ has shared the first trailer for 1883, starring Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, and Faith Hill.
While Yellowstone centers around the modern-day Dutton ranch family, 1883 traces the Dutton family line back to their journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It’s described as a “retelling of Western expansion,” and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land—Montana.
McGraw and Hill lead 1883 as a determined mother and father set on bringing their son and daughter to a place of endless possibility. As they make their way through the rugged frontier, the unpaved road is riddled with dangerous stand-offs and plenty of gunslinging, most the chaos spurred by Sam Elliott’s gruff character.
The series comes from Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan, and also stars Billy Bob Thornton, Isabel May, and LaMonica Garrett. The original series features performances from Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, and Cole Hauser. This year, Yellowstone earned one Emmy nomination for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program.
1883 will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ on Sunday, December 19, with a special simulcast premiere event for 1883 airing after the new episode of Yellowstone. So yes, while Yellowstone airs on the Paramount Network, 1883 will air on solely on Paramount + as an original series.
However, if you’re just hearing about this and now want to catch up on the entire series before the prequel airs, you will have to go to Peacock to watch the earlier seasons of Yellowstone. So, you only need two streaming service subscriptions as well as cable access in order to catch all things Yellowstone.
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As long as they avoid controversy by casting an anthropomorphic bear.
You know, I was thinking of Jellystone parody of Yellowstone and then it occurred to me I may have seen one. Maybe on Robot Chicken?
I think when Sam Elliott finally passes, Hollywood should declare a permanent moratorium on westerns, because there’s nobody in the world who looks more like a grizzled cowboy than Elliott.
I love Yellowstone, but I’m not paying for another streaming service to watch 1883.
Time is cyclical, so if you just wait around long enough, maybe you can watch it live some day.
If you don’t mind missing out on FOMO, it’ll likely appear on Pluto TV eventually.
Thanks!
Wait, what? Billy Bob Thornton is in this?! I feel like that’s been grossly underreported! I had no idea. I can see myself coughing up for P+ for a month down the line to binge this all in a month. Im very curious how this show will depict encounters with the indigenous people already living on the land.
…and Emma Stone as Pocahontas
In a little tease for the new show they did a brief flashback to such an encounter in an episode of Yellowstone this season. Mutual respect, no conflict.
an intense study of one family fleeing puberty to seek a better future in America’s promised land—Miami.
You’re thinking of Scarface.
Yellowstone is bat shit crazy. I only made it maybe 3-4 eps in, but they were burning through plot lines at an amazing rate. SOA on horses wasn’t what I was expecting I gotta say.
It’s definitely a guilty pleasure and I do mean guilty.
LaMonica Garrett is blowing up lately! He’s a great guy and deserves the work.
“McGraw and Hill lead 1883 as a determined mother and father…”Wait, is this before they started publishing school textbooks?
I love that AV Club has suddenly been covering Yellowstone whenever something new happens, after being unaware it existed for years. Next thing you know, they’ll bring back coverage of Kung Fu or Walker, or even pay attention to non-reality competition shows on the non-CW broadcast networks.
Isn’t there another spinoff from Yellowstone? The one about the ranch in Texas?BTW, Jane Campion’s latest movie The Power of the Dog also takes place in Montana (in the 1920s) but was shot entirely in New Zealand.