Taylor Sheridan is getting ready to hang up his spurs at Paramount, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The prolific Yellowstone and Tulsa King writer and director is expected to jump to NBCUniversal, beginning with a film deal that will go into effect next year. Sheridan’s TV deal with Paramount is not up until the end of 2028, but has is expected to bring that over to NBCUniversal when it ends.
Puck first reported Sheridan’s move. A spokesperson for NBCU declined to comment.
Sheridan is one of the industry’s biggest talents, creating the Yellowstone franchise (along with its multitude of spinoffs like 1923 and 1883), the Sylvester Stallone-led franchise Tulsa King and other programming for Paramount, like Special Ops: Lioness and Mayor of Kingstown.
Sheridan’s next film, however, an action thriller called F.A.S.T., is set up at Warner Bros.
His NBCUniversal deal is expected to be a rich one (no surprise there), though he will have to create wholly new IP when he does make that jump in a few years time. As is typical in these deals, Paramount owns Yellowstone and the other franchises he has created for that company.
“I spent the first 37 years of my life compromising,” Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter in a 2023 profile. “When I quit acting, I decided that I am going to tell my stories my way, period. If you don’t want me to tell them, fine. Give them back and I’ll find someone who does — or I won’t, and then I’ll read them in some freaking dinner theater. But I won’t compromise. There is no compromising.”
