1923 SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, Dec. 18 Paramount+
HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS HARRISON Ford and Helen Mirren are used to playing straight shooters. But it’s difficult to imagine them both crouched low in the dirt behind a log in a Montana forest, aiming their rifles at a fast-approaching enemy while squibs explode all around them. Now picture them doing that during a grueling 12-hour shoot and you get an idea of what’s at stake for the duo playing ranch patriarch Jacob Dutton and his wife, Cara, in the eagerly awaited Yellowstone prequel 1923.
Creator-writer Taylor Sheridan’s second origin series bridges the gap between the hardy, big-dream pioneers of the first, , and the contemporary megarich cattle ranchers led by John Dutton III (Kevin Costner) in what has