Overview
- Deadline reports that Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin have read a new draft and are said to be set to return, according to unnamed sources.
- Padraic McKinley is reported to be attached to direct and Oscar nominee Steven Knight is the working screenwriter who is revising the script with notes from the stars.
- Black Label Media and Thunder Road are leading production and are shopping a completed package to multiple studios with several showing interest, though no studio or official cast confirmations have been published.
- Producers and creatives are targeting a shoot at the top of next year but that timing depends on finishing the script, closing financing and signing formal deals with talent and a studio.
- The move follows the franchise’s 2015 and 2018 films created by Taylor Sheridan and signals a change in creative authorship and a commercial push to reinvigorate the series for a new studio partner.