Paramount is jumping on the Taylor Sheridan bandwagon again.
Writer-creator Taylor Sheridan has quickly become one of the biggest names on television over the course of the past decade. Most notably, his fame has manifested in the show Yellowstone and its spinoff successors, including 1923, 1883, and The Madison. Sheridan has also had successful series outside this IP, including Tulsa King and Landman.
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A recent interview between Polygon and Paramount Games’s Head of Creative & Production Shawn Kittelsen reveals the company’s plans for Sheridan content beyond television. According to the executive, the games division is working on content based on the “Sheridanverse.” Kittelsen mentioned several shows on the table for game adaptation, including Landman and the whole Yellowstone IP. Check out his quote below:
“All of the Yellowstone and Yellowstone-adjacent titles, Landman, Tulsa King, these are all priorities for us.”
Paramount’s Sheridanverse is being planned alongside some significant IP games. Paramount Games is currently working on titles within what Kittelsen refers to as their “core four” IPs: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Trek, and SpongeBob SquarePants. For a Sheridan show-based game to be even in the same conversation as an animated giant like SpongeBob is notable.
The Yellowstone universe alone will give Paramount some significant storylines to run with. IP games do not always follow the plot of the original story (in fact, they can tend not to give players a reason to see an expanded universe), but they will likely share at least some characters with Sheridan’s work. The Dutton family tree is ever expanding with each spinoff, so there will be a lot of characters to explore.
Yellowstone, Tulsa King, and Landman are also not the only Sheridan projects that Kittelsen and his team were interested in taking on. Later in his interview, the executive mentioned that he is also interested in adapting Sheridan’s Lioness.
Unlike Sheridan’s Western genre work, Lioness is a spy action thriller led by Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman. This women-led story follows a CIA operative and her attempt to balance her personal and professional career. When adapted into a video game, this show would serve a different niche than something like a Landman or Yellowstone game.
With Kittelsen’s goals clear, the question is now just when he and his team will start their Sheridanverse effort. Whichever direction they go in is sure to be a treat for Taylor Sheridan‘s ever-growing fan base.
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May 21, 1970
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Cranfills Gap, Texas, USA