![]() ![]() There was one way set with it - there was one version - and now there’s going to be two versions.Įverything is well-thought-out with Taylor. Now the network is excited to bring you something really additional to 1883, which is super exciting. I don’t want to give away too much, but was always intended to be the second season. I’m assuming from this ending that you guys were not originally intending on another season, which is why Paramount+ is billing last week’s news as “additional episodes” rather than season two? This seems like it was supposed to be the end of this story. So 1883 was billed as the story of the Dutton clan traveling to Montana and settling there. What you see is what he wrote back in May of last year. You’re not getting pages on Saturday night on a Taylor show. When he turns a script in, that’s it - there are no pink, blue, green, yellow pages along the way. Taylor is a first-draft writer, and what he puts out is what we shoot. We shot through all that and COVID too.ĭid any of the fates change for any of the characters along the way - through the writing and production process? There were no locations to go to when there was a snowstorm or a rainstorm or a windstorm or a dust storm or extreme heat. ![]() Everything you see in the show is a bit of what we lived through. This cast and crew just really gave it their all. I’ve been very lucky to make a lot of great movies in my life, but this was spectacular. Tim and Faith, they’re husband and wife - they were like their characters and just crushed it. And the joke went that Taylor wrote a character - Elsa - who’s wearing basically wearing a tank top. We started in July in 105-degree weather in Texas and ended in blistering cold winds of negative 5, 10 degrees in the hills of Montana. Everybody went the distance on this show. And I love all our characters, but Sam really committed this journey as an individual. Shea has gone on this journey, helping unselfishly all these people and doing something incredible. Also, there’s something about killing off Sam Elliott that, as a fan, makes me go, “How dare you, Sir.” Still, it was a gut kick being tacked onto the previous scene. ![]() This was also foreshadowed pretty bluntly when he talked about his wife and his promise to take a bit of her soul with him to the shore. I had people telling me on Saturday, “Oh, we know she’s going to live, so why don’t you just tell me?”Īnd then there’s Shea’s fate. Taylor believes in dropping you right into a world, and you’re going to be immersed in that world, and whatever you think is going to happen is not going to happen. It’s never what you think, and we have coming up this year, there’s never anything that’s on the nose. I’ve been with him seven years now producing his stuff. Everybody thinks it’s gonna be the music, and they go off over the hill. Then you had James telling us point-blank last week she’s doomed, and a savvy viewer thinks, “Since we’re being told that, something must intervene.” You hid your ending in plain sight.Įxactly, and that’s what Taylor does. We’ve known this was coming for so long that we’ve just assumed she wasn’t going to die, even though surviving such a wound would have been highly unrealistic. With Elsa, though, it makes showing her getting shot in the season’s opening flash-forward scene sort of brilliant. ![]() Everything that happened sort of has a full-circle wrap to it. You understand the pain of this journey they invested in. It’s just one of the things Taylor always promised in the beginning, “I’m going to button this up,” and just brings everything full circle. Thomas, who had closed everything off in his life, found what he wanted: a woman. Shea wanted to see the coast one more time - that’s what he wanted out of this journey after losing his family. For James and Margaret, they lost a daughter but found a place to build a better life. For every single character, even down to our young boy John Dutton Jr., you can see where this goes forward in this journey. Taylor sort of teased you with it in the beginning, and what you really understand at the end of the day is that the entire journey comes together at the end. I kept thinking she was probably essential to the Dutton family tree, and there was no way you guys were going to kill off your narrator and arguably your main character. I have to admit: I didn’t think Elsa was going to die until about two minutes before she did. Taylor Sheridan Does Whatever He Wants: "I Will Tell My Stories My Way"īelow, 1883 executive producer David Glasser tackled some of the burning questions left by the episode, aptly titled “This Is Not Your Heaven,” which was written by the Dutton-verse’s prolific showrunner, Taylor Sheridan. ![]()
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