‘Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan Confirms ‘6666’ Spinoff Is Dead: ‘I Would Never Do That’

There’s finally an update on the Yellowstone spinoff about the Four Sixes Ranch, 6666: It’s not happening, according to Taylor Sheridan. The series was announced by Paramount in 2022. It had executive producers and studios attached, as well as a series description. But Sheridan claims it was “never” going to happen. Sheridan leads an investment group that bought the Four Sixes Ranch in 2022.

“There’s never going to be one,” Sheridan said in a new interview on the Rodeo Time podcast. “I would never fictionalize that ranch.”

“People thought that that was going to be a thing, but I would never do that,” he said. Sheridan didn’t mention anything about the previously announced Yellowstone prequel spinoff 1944, but it’s reportedly still in development.

The Four Sixes Ranch was introduced in Yellowstone Season 4, when struggling Yellowstone cowboy Jimmy (Jefferson White) was sent to work there for proper training. He ended up staying there full-time and falling in love with Emily (Kathryn Kelly), a veterinarian. Eventually, Jimmy moved on to horse training when we got an update on his life in Yellowstone‘s final season. Fans presumed that the 6666 spinoff could focus on Jimmy’s life at the famous ranch.

“I’ve actually got on my computer all the scenes of Jimmy at the 6666 pulled out and strung together, and it makes its own perfect little movie,” Sheridan shared. “You watch him go there as this misfit, and leave as a man and a respected cowboy.”

“So now I’m trivializing and fictionalizing something where real people work, and they raise their families there, and I could never do that to them,” the Yellowstone creator continued. “I could never do that to the cowboys that dedicated themselves, and everybody that works on that ranch. I’m very protective of the Sixes, and it’s a big responsibility to be the person who has to protect that ranch, so I have to be very, very careful with it.”

The 6666 series description said that 6666 was set “when Comanches still ruled West Texas, and no ranch in America is more steeped in the history of the West than the 6666. Still operating as it did two centuries before, and encompassing an entire county, the 6666 is where the rule of law and the laws of nature merge in a place where the most dangerous thing one does is the next thing. The 6666 is synonymous with the merciless endeavor to raise the finest horses and livestock in the world, and ultimately where world-class cowboys are born and made.”

Sheridan, John Linson, Art Linson, David Glasser, Ron Burkle, and Bob Yari were set to be executive producers of 6666, with 101 Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios producing.

There are two Yellowstone spinoffs still on-air: Marshals on CBS, and Dutton Ranch on Paramount Network and Paramount+.

Sheridan is returning to writing films after stepping away from creative control of the Yellowstone TV universe. His production company will produce two new films, Visalia and Capture the Flag. The movies come from Andrew Lauren, a producer of The Brutalist, who says he conceptualized these stories with Sheridan before Yellowstone became a hit.

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