Josh Brolin Weighs In on Claims ‘Outer Range’ Is ‘Piggybacking’ Off ‘Yellowstone’
variety.comJosh Brolin. But it didn’t take much for him to agree to star in Amazon Prime Video’s “Outer Range.”“I never want to do anything straightforward,” he tells Variety. “I find it boring.
This felt like a major swing and it had all the room to fail, and I like those odds.”The series, despite being part of the western genre, isn’t like others.
Set against the Teton Mountains in Wyoming, using the allure of a bottomless hole to weave a multi-layered story together.“I think the West is a lot stranger than our narrative categories have always really portrayed,” creator Brian Watkins says. “I wanted to write something that I felt encompassed the West I knew, as a place that was always reaching for transcendence.
It is a place that is undeniably filled with mystery and wonder.” As for the genre’s rising popularity — see Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone,” the highest-rated cable telecast in years — Watkins isn’t surprised.“The idea of a showdown is not a low-stakes, mumblecore event.
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