On the same day Yellowstone season 5 is scheduled to premiere with a blockbuster two-hour event, Paramount+ has decided to drop the very first teaser trailer for the hotly-anticipated Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren-led prequel series: Yellowstone 1923.
Exploring the early twentieth century when different pandemics, a historic drought, the end of Prohibition, as well as the Great Depression all plagued the mountain west, this latest entry to Taylor Sheridan’s franchise follows the grandparents of patriarch and renowned rural hard-ass, John Dutton (Kevin Costner).
“Violence has always followed this family from the Scottish Highlands to the slums of Dublin, and it followed us here,” a voiceover can be heard saying in the Yellowstone 1923 trailer, cutting between various scenes of hostility, i.e. gunfights and brawls.
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“Where it doesn’t follow, we hunt it down. We seek it.”
The preview ends with a close-up shot of Ford’s Jacob Dutton as he takes aim with a rifle, before staring right down the barrel of the camera with that signature grizzled smoulder.
In addition to Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton and Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton, here’s a quick breakdown of every other major player you can expect…
Yellowstone 1923 Cast & Characters
- Sebastian Roché as Father Renaud
Headmaster of the school for American Indians. - Darren Mann as Jack Dutton
John Dutton Sr.’s son and great-nephew to Jacob Dutton. He is a dedicated rancher who is deeply loyal to his family. - Michelle Randolph as Elizabeth Strafford
A feisty and capable young woman set to marry into the Dutton family. - James Badge Dale as John Dutton Sr.
The oldest nephew and right-hand man of Jacob Dutton. - Marley Shelton as Emma Dutton
The dutiful wife of John Dutton Sr. and the mother of Jack Dutton. - Brian Geraghty as Zane
A fiercely loyal ranch foreman. - Aminah Nieves as Teonna Rainwater
A young woman at a government residential boarding school. - Julia Schlaepfer as Alexandra
A British woman who meets one of the Duttons abroad. - Brandon Sklenar as Spencer Dutton
Jacob Dutton’s nephew, and John Dutton Sr.’s brother, who has witnessed the horrors of World War I. - Robert Patrick as Sheriff William McDowell
A friend of the Dutton family. - Jerome Flynn as Banner Creighton
- Jennifer Ehle as Sister Mary
An Irish nun who teaches at the school for American Indians in Montana. - Timothy Dalton as Donald Whitfield
A powerful, self-confident man who reeks of wealth and the lack of empathy it requires to attain it. He is intimidating and nefarious and is used to getting what he wants.
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In line with the precedent set by the first prequel, the Yellowstone 1923 release date falls on December 18th (US & Canada) and December 19th (UK & Australia).
Check out the Yellowstone 1923 trailer starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren below.
Yellowstone 1923 Official Synopsis
The limited series focuses on the Dutton family’s next two generations as they struggle to survive historic drought, lawlessness and prohibition, and an epidemic of cattle theft; all battled beneath the cloud of Montana’s great depression, which preceded the nation by almost a decade.
