Yellowstone may be ending, but Taylor Sheridan’s Dutton universe continues to expand. What began with one show following the dramas of the modern-day Dutton family on their Montana ranch, now features multiple spin-offs, including a forthcoming second season of 1923, the Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford-fronted prequel series following an earlier generation of Duttons establishing their roots in the American west.
Ahead of the finale of season one earlier this year, Paramount+ confirmed that the show, which “explores the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, and the end of Prohibition all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home,” will be coming back for another chapter.
Since then, there have been some shakeups behind the scenes that have caused complications of the series’s second season. The Butte Civic Center, which was contracted to serve as a sound stage for the production when it was originally set to begin filming this June, ended their agreement with the show over the summer due to ongoing production delays caused by the strikes of the actors and writers guilds. According to previous reports, the series was paying Butte-Silver Bow $75,000 per month for use of the Civic Center through the end of the 2023 calendar year, and had already requested an extension on their contract when production was first delayed in May.
Now, however, NBC Montana reports that the show will, indeed, return to Butte for at least part of its filming, as confirmed by show producer Charlie Skinner. The report also notes that there are no active filming permits for the series in Butte at the moment, and that no startup date has been set. The production will evidently not be returning to the Civic Center, which they vacated earlier this year.
Here, everything we know so far about the show’s season two:
A premiere date has yet to be announced.
At this point, it seems highly unlikely that we’ll see any more of our favorite characters from 1923 before mid-2024. Given how many projects Sheridan currently has in the works, which range from other Yellowstone-related series like 6666 to original shows like Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, and Special Ops: Lioness, it’s unclear when his schedule will open up to work on what comes next for the Duttons of 1923 once he’s able to return to work.
At this point it’s anyone’s best guess as to when the show could finally make a return. There’s only one good news: one ‘1923’ star confirmed that filming would resume soon.
In a red carpet interview with Fox News, the star who stars as Spencer Dutton, explained that he’s looking forward to working with Helen and Harrison when the show returns for its second season. He has not shared the screen with the Hollywood icons yet because his character has been traveling through Africa and Europe, but it sounds like he’ll finally make his way to join them on the Dutton ranch. He said, “I haven’t gotten to act with them yet. I will in the last eight episodes that we’re about to start…It’s happening, and I’m stoked, I’m excited.”
When asked if he’s heard anything about the next installments in the Yellowstone universe, he said, “I haven’t really. They run a pretty tight ship over there in terms of like information. I’m still waiting for a couple scripts for next season and we leave in a couple months. It’s kind of exciting that way. You don’t really know until you know.”
Hopefully we will all know more very soon.
