After a two-year absence, and after the fifth and final-ish season of its predecessor Yellowstone, Taylor Sheridan’s 1923 landed on the 2025 TV schedule to wrap up its second season with quite a lot of lethal outcomes for a number of essential characters, together with Julia Schlaepfer’s Alexandra Dutton and Brandon Sklenar’s Spencer. Issues have been fortunately much less deadly for Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren’s Jacob and Cara Dutton, propping the metaphorical door open for his or her potential returns. Simply how a lot potential’s there, although?
One would possibly suppose the reply is “zilch,” however that’d underestimate simply how fulfilling each Ford and Mirren discovered filming 1923 to be. Each A-tier actors have been readily available to speak concerning the Paramount+ collection for an FYC Q&A — an occasion I doubt both would have attended in the event that they weren’t all-in on the Duttons — and whereas Ford shared his curiosity degree on probably reprising Jacob for an upcoming Yellowstone present, Mirren talked child John and the long-gestating sequel-prequel 1944, first introduced in November 2023.
Harrison Ford On Probably Returning To Yellowstone-Verse As Jacob Dutton
Regardless of starring in a number of the most profitable and celebrated film franchises in existence in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford is not an actor that is ever been synonymous with sequels, and even his Jack Ryan films are mutually unique sufficient. But he spoke fairly extremely about 1923‘s closing episode, saying it was “unbelievable” and “probaby the densest script” that he is lent his efforts to in years.
So with 1944 on the way in which and no direct indicators of when and/or how Jacob and Cara meet their makers, it is nonetheless possible for Ford’s now-retired rancher to outlive into the following collection in grandpa-mode. And it would not sound just like the actor would reject the provide to come back again, both. As he put it:
I’m nonetheless alive. [If Taylor Sheridan] asks good. I do not know what his plans are.
One can solely hope that franchise ringleader Taylor Sheridan himself has a transparent thought of the place he is taking the Duttons’ story, and whether or not it will finally hyperlink up straight with the mothership collection. And logistically talking, I do not suppose he’d be that focused on having 100-year-old Jacob Dutton strutting round in 1944, however I believe it could be an excellent transfer to pepper that present with flashbacks that lay out how Jacob, Cara and Spencer obtained on collectively after their prolonged time aside.
But Helen Mirren’s Thoughts About Baby John Have Me More Curious
Curiously sufficient, 1923 ends on an lovely observe for Cara Dutton, whose closing moments have her cradling Spender and Alex’s John Dutton II. And for all of the hypothesis that is gone into that child’s existence – here is what the solid advised CinemaBlend about it – nobody participating within the FYC chat was coughing up any further particulars.
But Mirren sounded fairly within the thought of 1923 closing out on youth and age coming collectively in such a means, and I’ve to marvel if she’d be focused on exploring Cara’s motherly abilities with an precise toddler as a substitute of grown children. This is how she described it:
I like the truth that the way forward for Yellowstone is left on this tiny child, within the arms of two older individuals, grandparents age. I assumed that was a really attention-grabbing idea. And Taylor now I believe goes to do 1944 as I perceive, in order that shall be attention-grabbing too, the following era.
Certainly, that era will probably be closely impacted by each Cara and Jacob Dutton, in addition to Spencer (whose flash-forward demise was specified by 1923‘s closing moments). So it could probably really feel like too empty of a home if 1944 arrives and it is simply Spencer, one other spouse, and two children that viewers do not know something about. Positive could be good to have one thing acquainted round in that case, resembling Harrison Ford’s face made as much as look 20 years previous. Or possibly that’d be horrifying. I can not fairly inform.
I assume it is price declaring right here that 1923 technically hasn’t been canceled or something, so it is potential that Season 3 might occur and provides followers a extra direct have a look at Cara and Jacob elevating John II. But we’ll have to attend and see if Paramount+’s execs make any publicized selections going ahead.
