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Taylor Sheridan's Landman: Release Date, Cast, Trailer, and Everything Else to Know​

Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Hamm star in the Paramount+ drama from the Yellowstone creator

Liam Mathews July 4, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. PT

Landman
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It's been an unusually long time since we've gotten a new series from Taylor Sheridan, TV's most prolific writer-producer, because he's been in the lab working onYellowstone's final season as well as a new show that could be one of his biggest.
That series is Landman, a Texas oil industry drama Sheridan co-created with Christian Wallace that's set to stream on Paramount+. Billy Bob Thornton leads the star-studded cast for the series, which is in production now. Landman sounds like a perfect entry into Sheridan's portfolio of politically ambiguous rough-and-tumble dramas about hard people with hard jobs, and a worthy successor to Yellowstone.
Here's everything we know so far about Landman.

Landman latest news ​

On May 2, Deadline revealed that Andy Garcia joined the cast. Garcia is an Academy Award nominee for The Godfather Part III, but he is perhaps best known for playing Terry Benedict, the casino owner who's the primary antagonist of the Ocean's trilogy. More recently he's appeared in Netflix's Pain Hustlers, Expend4bles, and Max's Father of the Bride remake, which he executive-produced.
In Landman, he'll play Galino, who is described as "an extremely capable, powerful, and practical man."
He's just one of several high-profile actors in the cast of Landman. More on that below.

Landman release date​

Paramount+ has not set a release date for Landman yet. We anticipate it will be released sometime in 2025. We'll update this post as soon as that information becomes available.

Landman production and filming location​

Landman was announced in February 2022, and began filming exactly two years later.
It's filmed in Fort Worth, Tex., which is Taylor Sheridan's hometown and home base. He owns the 6666 Ranch, which is about 200 miles from Fort Worth. Parts of Yellowstone and 1883 have been filmed in the Fort Worth area, and Landman is expected to be filmed almost entirely in and around Fort Worth, using real oil workers for authenticity. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the show filmed an explosive collision between a small airplane and a tanker truck in Young County, Tex., so that's something exciting to look forward to seeing.

Landman plot​

Landman is set in the oil boomtowns of contemporary West Texas, where people go seeking fortune and either find it or go bust. Paramount+ describes it as "an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it's reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics."

Jon Hamm, who plays an oil baron, told People that the show is "not actually cowboy-oriented at all," which is different for a Sheridan show set in Texas. "It's based on oil speculators and what they called landmen, which are the guys that run around and try to acquire mineral rights and land rights in the hope of speculating and finding oil," he said. "There's a lot of oil under the ground here in Texas and they are constantly trying to find it." So if your favorite part of Yellowstone is the Duttons' business and political maneuvering, it sounds like Landman will be for you.

Landman cast​

Billy Bob Thornton
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As is the case with all of Taylor Sheridan's Paramount+ shows, Landman has a cast stacked with high-profile performers. The cast includes several movie and TV stars, as well as some familiar faces from the Taylor Sheridan extended universe.

• Billy Bob Thornton (Goliath) as Tommy Norris, a crisis executive at an oil company.
• Demi Moore (Ghost) as Cami, wife to one of the most powerful oil men in Texas and a friend of Tommy's.
• Ali Larter (Heroes) as Angela Norris, Tommy's ex-wife.
• Michelle Randolph (1923) as Ainsley Norris, Tommy and Angela's wild, strong-willed 17-year-old daughter.
• Jacob Lofland (Mud) as Cooper Norris, Tommy and Angela's son, a rookie oil and gas field worker.
• Kayla Wallace (When Calls the Heart) as Rebecca Savage, a very intimidating liability attorney who's good at cleaning up messes.
• James Jordan (Yellowstone) as Dale Bradley, a petroleum engineer who manages roughnecks and is Tommy's roommate.
• Mark Collie (Nashville) as Sheriff Joeberg, a West Texas lawman.
• Paulina Chávez (The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia) as Ariana, a young mother whose family has suffered a tragedy.
• Octavio Rodriguez(Homeland) as Antonio, a hard man who is angry about that tragedy.
• Colm Feore (The Umbrella Academy) as Nathan, an oil company attorney and administrator.
• Mustafa Speaks (Joe Pickett) as Boss, an experienced roughneck.
• J.R. Villarreal (Freeridge) as Manuel, an oil crewman who is seeking revenge after a disaster
• Jon Hamm (Mad Men) as Monty Miller, a titan of the Texas oil industry who has a long personal and professional relationship with Tommy.
• Andy Garcia (Ocean's Eleven) as Galino, a powerful man.

What is Landman based on?​

Landman is based on a Texas Monthly podcast called Boomtown. Boomtown, which ran for 12 episodes between 2019 and 2020, features in-depth reporting on the oil industry in the Permian Basin, America's most productive oilfield. Boomtown was named one of the 50 best podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic.

Boomtown was reported, written, and hosted by journalist Christian Wallace, who is the co-creator of Landman. Wallace previously worked as a roughneck and as an editor at Texas Monthly.

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Recycling other actors/actresses from the same universe is trash. They just milking shyt atp

 

[daemonova]

Recycling other actors/actresses from the same universe is trash. They just milking shyt atp

But only Yellowstone and the prequels are connected. Just because you see Hugh dillion on mayor of Kingstown, he isn't the same hugh Dillon on Yellowstone.

Same with Lamonica Garrett, not the same guy on 1883 and Lioness, even though they aint in the same time period

 

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The police chief on Mayor of Kingstown is the same guy who replaced Hugh dillion as county sheriff on Yellowstone, but again not the same guy

 

[Trav]

Paramount got dat mf Sheridan in a 360

 

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ion wanna see none of these shyts until they finish up 1923.

 

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Landman premier date is November 17th

 

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Billy Bob and Jon Hamm

I’m in.

 

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Billy Bob and Jon Hamm

I’m in.

 

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Landman Images: Jon Hamm, Demi Moore & Billy Bob Thornton In Yellowstone Creator’s New Western TV Show

The first look at Landman revealed.

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“Landman” cast, co-creator tease 'frontier justice' in Taylor Sheridan oil drama: 'It's the Wild West'​

Story by Emlyn Travis
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Billy Bob Thornton says his character's "sense of justice" and "dark side" will both be explored in the series.

Billy Bob Thornton was in the middle of portraying the deadly Marshal Jim Courtright on the Yellowstone spinoff 1883 when series creator Taylor Sheridan approached him with an idea.

“He said he had something that he was writing, a thing for me, and we would talk about it later,” Thornton tells Entertainment Weekly. “I believe it was at the premiere of 1883 in Las Vegas when he said, ‘Okay, here's the deal. It's called Landman. It's about this.'”

This, of course, being a high-stakes family drama set against the backdrop of West Texas’ prosperous and hazardous oil and gas industry. The series is inspired by journalist Christian Wallace’s celebrated Boomtown podcast, which chronicled the trials and tribulations faced by everyday people living, working, and attempting to strike gold in the highest-yielding oil field within the United States, the Permian Basin.

Wallace, a former writer for Texas Monthly who previously worked on an oil rig, had spoken with Sheridan prior to Boomtown’s release so, when Hollywood came knocking about converting the podcast into a television show, he knew exactly who to contact. “I reached out to Taylor because I knew that out of everyone working in that space, Taylor's voice is the most authentic to the American West,” Wallace, who serves as a co-creator and executive producer on the series, recalls. "A lot of our ideas about how to tell stories about this place really align."

He notes that the podcast is “just a launching point” for the show. “Taylor had a lot of his own ideas coming into it and already had some characters and things he wanted to do,” Wallace notes. “So we just combined some elements of the podcast with a story and the family that he already had in mind and it worked out really, really well.”

The end result was Landman, a gritty drama that follows Tommy Norris (Thornton), a no-nonsense man tasked with overseeing and protecting an oil patch for his boss and longtime friend, Monty Miller (Jon Hamm). The nature of his job, however, has kept Tommy at a distance from his loved ones, including his ex-wife Angela (Ali Larter), daughter Ainsley (1923's Michelle Randolph), and his son Cooper (Jacob Lofland).

“The oil business… it's a job where your time is very limited with the people around you, your friends, your family,” Thornton says. “And so part of this show is about that struggle to be a father and desperately wanting to be, but having a lot of trouble doing it well.”

The arrival of the fierce and fashionable Angela and Ainsley — alongside Cooper’s decision to follow in his father’s footsteps in the oil industry — is sure to shake things up for him. “It's definitely a solid family drama,” Larter says. “The heart, for me, is the family dinners, when you see everyone together and you understand their dynamic — and that in its core also, it's just a family trying to hold on and to love each other.”

Even if his job puts them all in some high-pressure situations. “[Landman is] so dependent upon the family story and their dynamic and the love and the humor that is there, but it's also about navigating the difficult and often really dangerous world of oil and gas and that part of West Texas,” Wallace adds. “There's a lot of complicated challenges out there because of the booming industry. It's kind of the Wild West out there, right? And so there's a lot of taking matters into your own hands and frontier justice, for lack of a better phrase, that we explore in the show.”

Thornton teases that viewers will get a firsthand look at Tommy’s “sense of justice” in the show. “We also see the dark side of Tommy sometimes — the part that's like, ‘If you're going to work in this business, there's certain things you have to do. And here's some of them,'" he says. While he’s wary of potential spoilers, he concedes, "The oil business is not a bunch of guys wearing white button up shirts with bow ties, saying, ‘Can I fill her up, ma'am?’ It's a different world."


Larter adds that the series will also deal with “the dangerous world of the cartel,” too. “There's so much going on and it doesn't slow down for a minute,” she says. “The show just keeps on moving and pushing through all these different worlds.”

 

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But it’s not all pumpjacks and plains. Landman also focuses on the high-rolling oil executives like Monty and his wife, Cami (Demi Moore), who are living life to the fullest in buzzy metropolitan cities like Fort Worth and Houston. “I think having both [sides] in this show is also really unique, because we've had Dallas before,” Wallace says. “We've had shows that showed that upstairs version of this industry, but none that showed both the working class and the white collar world."

 

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It was also important that the series accurately portrayed roughneck life, which is why Landman hosted a three-day camp on a real workover rig to get the cast acclimated with the machinery — similar to Yellowstone's cowboy camp, if only a bit more grimy. “They really got 60, 80, feet up in the air, climbing into the derrick,” Wallace says of the actors. “I was really appreciative that we were given the opportunity to put our actors in an authentic training program, so that when it came time to shoot those scenes later in the season when we started production, they did a fantastic job. I couldn't believe it, honestly, just how convincing and authentic their portrayal of real roughnecks and people in the oil and gas industry was.”


Actually being on set, though, was an entirely different ballgame. “The last month and a half or so we were there, it was pretty darn hot and humid,” Thornton recalls. “Not to whine about it… but I've been in California for most of my life and you get used to this weather, and all of a sudden, you're in the humidity, you're working a 12, 14-hour day in the middle of an oil field where there aren't any trees. You're walking around on rocks all the time. There were long days.”



He adds, “A lot of times in a movie, you start to feel like you actually are working in whatever world you're working in the movie — I mean, it felt like I worked for an oil company every day when I got up, went to work.”

Larter had a very different experience tapping into the free-wheeling Angela and her passion for fashion. “We had to do weekly spray tans, I had to have my Gel-X’s put on every two weeks, there's a lot that goes into looking like Angela Norris. And then that kind of seeped into my everyday life, because I had to keep it up,” she teases. “But we had fun with that. And because both of these characters [Angela and Ainsley] are incredibly glamorous, and they love fabulous clothes and beautiful things, it was fun to unapologetically embrace that.”


Still, the experience had a direct effect on Thornton, who began working on music with costar and singer-songwriter Mark Collie during production. “He was writing throughout the show and he had all these fantastic collaborators, from Billy Gibbons to ZZ Top and Tanya Tucker," Wallace recalls. “That was a really fun part of the show with Billy pulling out a guitar and singing a song he had written about the show, or was inspired by the show." (Thornton, forever cool, adds, “We wrote a couple of songs [that] were kind of inspired by the area, that business world. We'll see if they end up on anything. And maybe they will, maybe they won't, but they're at least there.”)

Wallace hopes that Landman, which he considers a "love letter" to West Texas, will shine a spotlight on the thankless, difficult work happening there. “I just hope that people can appreciate the idea of people who work really hard, most of their lives, in a place that is not the prettiest. You don't have a lot of the commodities that people in big cities and across the U.S. have, but they they live there because there's a job to be done, and they are supporting their families in the best way they know how,” he says. “For better or for worse, our world runs on this stuff and, until we have another alternative, somebody has to do the dirty work. And I think that the people who do it deserve some credit and I think that is something that this show will do.”

Landman premieres Sunday, Nov. 17, on Paramount+.

 

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Rednecks. And a fake ass native claiming woman