Paramount+ revealed the first images from Yellowstone spinoff Lawmen: Bass Reeves, a Western series chronicling the titular slave-turned-law enforcement officer.Per Vanity Fair, the images from Bass Reeves, the brainchild of Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, show off David Oyelowo as the eponymous character, his wife, Jennie (Lauren E. Banks), and the rest of the cast living, working and fighting for their lives. Oyelowo spoke about the nuance of the character and the irony of becoming a lawman after breaking the law. “His very existence questions the nature of justice. If we can now say that the enslavement of people was unjust, then freeing yourself from that unjust circumstance, can that truly be deemed unlawful?” he said. “I think that’s one of the biggest themes of the show. This is all playing out at a time that in many ways defines who and what America is. We watch the birth of America, in a sense, through the personal eyes of one Black man and his family.”Bass Reeves is a long time coming as Sheridan tried to drum up interest in the project dating back to 2015, three years before Yellowstone aired its first season. At the time, Bass Reeves didn’t receive support due to the lack of Westerns on TV. However, once Yellowstone took off, the attitudes towards doing Westerns in Hollywood changed. “Taylor came along and indisputably reimagined and reinvigorated the Western,” Oyelowo said. “I talked to him, and he is a real historian around this stuff. At that point, I’d been reading up on Bass Reeves for quite a while—and [Sheridan] was the only person I’d spoken to who knew at least as much, if not more, as I did. His passion for it just started making it feel like this might be a great collaboration. And then soon afterwards, Paramount+ expressed interest and we were off to the races.”RELATED: Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan Needs ‘Unfettered’ Creativity, No Writers’ Room
Paramount+ revealed the first images from Yellowstone spinoff Lawmen: Bass Reeves, a Western series chronicling the titular slave-turned-law enforcement officer.
Per Vanity Fair, the images from Bass Reeves, the brainchild of Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, show off David Oyelowo as the eponymous character, his wife, Jennie (Lauren E. Banks), and the rest of the cast living, working and fighting for their lives. Oyelowo spoke about the nuance of the character and the irony of becoming a lawman after breaking the law. “His very existence questions the nature of justice. If we can now say that the enslavement of people was unjust, then freeing yourself from that unjust circumstance, can that truly be deemed unlawful?” he said. “I think that’s one of the biggest themes of the show. This is all playing out at a time that in many ways defines who and what America is. We watch the birth of America, in a sense, through the personal eyes of one Black man and his family.”
Bass Reeves is a long time coming as Sheridan tried to drum up interest in the project dating back to 2015, three years before Yellowstone aired its first season. At the time, Bass Reeves didn’t receive support due to the lack of Westerns on TV. However, once Yellowstone took off, the attitudes towards doing Westerns in Hollywood changed. “Taylor came along and indisputably reimagined and reinvigorated the Western,” Oyelowo said. “I talked to him, and he is a real historian around this stuff. At that point, I’d been reading up on Bass Reeves for quite a while—and [Sheridan] was the only person I’d spoken to who knew at least as much, if not more, as I did. His passion for it just started making it feel like this might be a great collaboration. And then soon afterwards, Paramount+ expressed interest and we were off to the races.”
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