{"id":2028378,"date":"2025-09-17T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2028378"},"modified":"2025-09-17T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:54:14","slug":"robert-redford-came-close-to-leading-taylor-sheridans-western-franchise-worth-over-1-billion-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/robert-redford-came-close-to-leading-taylor-sheridans-western-franchise-worth-over-1-billion-what-went-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Redford Came Close to Leading Taylor Sheridan\u2019s Western Franchise Worth Over $1 Billion: What Went Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before Yellowstone<\/a> became a billion-dollar cultural juggernaut and Kevin Costner<\/a> the steely-eyed face of the Dutton<\/a> dynasty, Taylor Sheridan<\/a> had a very different leading man saddled up for the role. Yes, the late Robert Redford<\/a>, who passed away on September 16, 2025, at the age of 89. Indeed, Sheridan<\/a>\u2019s original vision for the modern Western epic not only began at HBO, but was set to be fronted by Redford himself, the cinematic outlaw, the American icon.<\/p>\n

Despite Redford\u2019s agreement, HBO balked, dismissing the concept as \u201ctoo Middle America\u201d and declaring rural Montana better off as a national park. Sheridan, stunned, later repurposed that very insult into a line of dialogue in Yellowstone<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Before Yellowstone became a billion-dollar cultural juggernaut and Kevin Costner the steely-eyed face of the Dutton dynasty, Taylor Sheridan had a very different leading man saddled up for the role. Yes, the late Robert Redford, who passed away on September 16, 2025, at the age of 89. Indeed, Sheridan\u2019s original vision for the modern Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2028379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2028378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Robert-Redford-Came-Close-to-Leading-Taylor-Sheridans-Western-Franchise.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}