Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.
Taylor Sheridan has released a handful of successful new projects already this year, but as his TV empire at Paramount continues to grow, he’s still pushing to make great movies. While most modern fans know Taylor Sheridan through his work on Yellowstone, he began his career writing (and sometimes even directing) legendary neo-Western thrillers like Sicario. After also writing other epic Westerns like Hell or High Water and Wind River, Sheridan decided to shift his focus to TV, but he’s finally returning to the world of movies next year with F.A.S.T., which is being hailed as a Sicario-style action thriller. Sheridan is also penning the script for Paramount’s highly anticipated Call of Duty movie, with Peter Berg tapped to direct. The film will be one of the biggest blockbusters in theaters in summer 2028.
Most fans would agree that Taylor Sheridan’s library of movies is far more hits than misses, but one of his films that certainly had a divisive reception was the 2021 thriller, Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse. Michael B. Jordan, who recently won his first Oscar for his dual performance in Sinners, stars in the lead role in Without Remorse, and the supporting cast is bolstered with stars like Colman Domingo, Jodie Turner-Smith, and even Guy Pearce. Without Remorse was originally planned to be released in theaters, but the COVID-19 pandemic turned these plans on their head, and the film was ultimately released straight to streaming on Prime Video in 2021. All these years later, Prime Video is still the only way to watch Without Remorse, and fans are watching it at such a high clip that it’s even returned to the global top 10 in a few countries.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe QuizWhich Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In?Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
QUESTION 1 / 10POWER
01
Where does your power come from?In Sheridan's world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
QUESTION 2 / 10LOYALTY
02
Who do you put first, no matter what?Loyalty in Sheridan's universe is always absolute — and always costly.
QUESTION 3 / 10CONFLICT
03
Someone crosses a line. How do you respond?Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it's crossed.
QUESTION 4 / 10SETTING
04
Where do you feel most in your element?Sheridan's worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
QUESTION 5 / 10MORALITY
05
How do you feel about operating in the grey?Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
QUESTION 6 / 10AMBITION
06
What are you actually fighting to hold onto?Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they're defending.
QUESTION 7 / 10LEADERSHIP
07
How do you lead?Authority in Sheridan's world is never given — it's established, maintained, and constantly tested.
QUESTION 8 / 10OUTSIDERS
08
Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction?Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
QUESTION 9 / 10COST
09
What has your position cost you?Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
QUESTION 10 / 10LEGACY
10
When it's over, what do you want people to say?Sheridan's characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has SpokenYou Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you're complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
YELLOWSTONE
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world's indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you're willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family's weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what's yours, you don't escalate — you finish it. You're not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone's world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn't make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
LANDMAN
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You're a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they'll do to get it. You're not naive enough to think this world is fair. You're smart enough to be the one deciding who it's fair to.
TULSA KING
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you're not above reminding people that the two aren't mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they'd be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they're more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don't need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you're the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky's world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You've made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
What Is ‘Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse’ About?
The official synopsis for Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, which holds polarizing scores of 45% from critics and 41% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:
“An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife in Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, the explosive origin story of action hero John Clark - one of the most popular characters in author Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan universe. When a squad of Russian soldiers kills his family in retaliation for his role in a top-secret op, Sr. Chief John Kelly (Michael B. Jordan) pursues the assassins at all costs. Joining forces with a fellow SEAL (Jodie Turner-Smith) and a shadowy CIA agent (Jamie Bell), Kelly's mission unwittingly exposes a covert plot that threatens to engulf the U.S. and Russia in an all-out war. Torn between personal honor and loyalty to his country, Kelly must fight his enemies without remorse if he hopes to avert disaster and reveal the powerful figures behind the conspiracy.”
Without Remorse was written by Sheridan but directed by Stefano Sollima. Sheridan and Sollima worked together a few years prior to Without Remorse on Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
Check out Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Taylor Sheridan’s future projects.
Facts Only
* Adam Blevins joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024 and was promoted to Senior position in December 2024.
* Taylor Sheridan wrote Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River.
* Taylor Sheridan is writing a film titled F.A.S.T. for release next year.
* Taylor Sheridan is writing a Call of Duty movie for Paramount with Peter Berg directing, slated for summer 2028.
* Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse was released on Prime Video in 2021.
* Michael B. Jordan stars in Without Remorse as Sr. Chief John Kelly.
* Without Remorse has a 45% critic score and a 41% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
* Stefano Sollima directed Without Remorse.
* The Taylor Sheridan television portfolio includes Yellowstone, Landman, Tulsa King, and Mayor of Kingstown.
* Michael B. Jordan won an Oscar for his performance in Sinners.
Executive Summary
Taylor Sheridan is expanding his creative footprint across both television and film. While widely recognized for his "TV empire" at Paramount—comprising gritty dramas like Yellowstone, Tulsa King, Landman, and Mayor of Kingstown—Sheridan is returning to cinema with the upcoming action thriller F.A.S.T. and a high-budget Call of Duty adaptation scheduled for 2028.
His filmography is generally viewed as successful, though the 2021 release of Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse remains a point of contention. The film, which stars Michael B. Jordan and was directed by Stefano Sollima, shifted from a theatrical release to a Prime Video streaming debut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite polarizing critical and audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes, the film continues to see high viewership numbers and has recently reappeared in global top 10 charts in several countries. This highlights a disconnect between critical reception and sustained consumer interest in Sheridan's brand of storytelling.
Full Take
The strongest version of this narrative is a career retrospective and promotional update on Taylor Sheridan, framing him as a versatile architect of "modern Western" and "brutal" narratives whose work transcends critical consensus to maintain high audience engagement.
The structure employs a distinct blending of journalistic reporting and interactive marketing. By embedding a personality quiz that categorizes users into "Sheridan Worlds," the content shifts from informing the reader to integrating them into the brand's mythology. This creates a psychological loop where the reader is encouraged to identify with the "brutal" and "complicated" morality of the characters before being presented with the filmography.
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The driving paradigm is the "Auteur as Brand." The focus is not on the individual quality of the works, but on the "Sheridan Universe." This echoes the industry-wide shift toward cinematic universes where the creator's name becomes the primary value proposition, outweighing specific plot or critical merit. The assumption is that "brutality" and "grey morality" are synonymous with authenticity and prestige.
The implication is a narrowing of narrative expectations; viewers are conditioned to seek a specific brand of masculine stoicism and power dynamics. This benefits the production studio by creating a predictable, loyal consumer base, though it risks flattening the diversity of the thriller genre.
If this were a coordinated influence campaign, the playbook would involve "Brand Haloing"—using a few undisputed hits (Sicario) to shield a mediocre project (Without Remorse) from criticism by framing the latter as a "divisive" piece of art rather than a failure. The content follows this pattern slightly by juxtaposing a failing Rotten Tomatoes score with a "global top 10" streaming stat to invalidate the critics.
Bridge Questions:
1. Does high streaming viewership indicate quality, or simply the efficacy of platform algorithms?
2. How does the romanticization of "operating in the grey" in these narratives shape the viewer's perception of real-world power structures?
3. To what extent does the "Universe" framing protect creators from the accountability of a poor critical reception?