TV titan Taylor Sheridan continued his Hollywood takeover when he wrote and directed the critically-acclaimed 2017 neo-Western crime movie Wind River, which options the skills of Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen and follows the duo as they examine the stunning homicide of a younger lady on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Each a essential and business triumph, Wind River was the recipient of quite a few accolades and was named one of many High Ten Unbiased Movies of the 12 months by the Nationwide Board of Assessment.
Because of the overwhelming success of the unique film, a sequel was formally introduced to be within the works in 2022, with Kari Skogland (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) taking on the reins as director from Sheridan for Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter. The sequel could have Martin Sensmeier and Gil Birmingham reprising their roles from the primary movie, and they are going to be joined by some acquainted faces which might be positive to excite followers; let’s check out all the pieces we all know up to now about Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter.
Who Is Starring in ‘Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter’?
Regardless of headlining the acclaimed 2017 neo-Western, Marvel superstars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen is not going to be reprising their respective roles as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Agent Cory Lambert and FBI Particular Agent Jane Banner for Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter. Nevertheless, there are two actors from the unique hit who shall be returning for the sequel: Martin Sensmeier and Gil Birmingham. After beforehand showing in each the Sheridan TV staples Yellowstone and 1883, in addition to Westworld, Sensmeier shall be again as Chip Hanson for The Subsequent Chapter, together with his character now a newly minted tracker like Renner’s Lambert.
Hollywood veteran Birmingham can be returning as Martin Hanson, Chip’s father, who beforehand helped Lambert and Banner observe down his daughter’s killer. The actor can be no stranger to the Sheridan universe, as he appeared in Hell or Excessive Water and Yellowstone and had memorable roles in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Twilight Saga, and X-Males: ’97. Becoming a member of Sensmeier and Birmingham as new characters are Jason Clarke (Oppenheimer, The Satan All of the Time) and Scott Eastwood (Wrath of Man), in addition to Alan Ruck (Succession), Chaske Spencer (The English), Tatanka Means (Killers of the Flower Moon), and Kali Reis (True Detective: Evening Nation).
What Is the Premise of the Sequel?
Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter will decide up a couple of years after the occasions of the unique movie, which adopted Brokers Lambert and Banner as they investigated the loss of life of 18-year-old Natalie Hanson on the Wind River Indian Reservation after her frozen physique was found throughout winter. The sequel will deal with Natalie’s previously drug-addicted brother Chip (Sensmeier), who’s now a newly minted tracker for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and is enlisted by the FBI to look right into a sequence of grotesque, ritualistic murders on the reservation.
As Chip makes an attempt to pursue justice and seek out who’s accountable for the heinous crimes, he finds himself swept up in a vicious combat between the authorities, the Reservation that’s his beloved residence, and a mysterious vigilante. The sequel will chronicle Chip’s efforts to maintain his group secure as terror escalates and his loyalties are in the end examined, with tensions rising because the decided tracker takes on harmful threats.
Is Taylor Sheridan Concerned in ‘Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter’?
Although TV titan Taylor Sheridan each directed and penned the screenplay for 2017’s Wind River, for which he acquired quite a few accolades, together with the Un Sure Regard for Finest Director on the Cannes Movie Pageant, he is not going to be collaborating within the follow-up. Sheridan was impressed to write down the movie with a view to elevate consciousness in regards to the situation of the excessive variety of Indigenous ladies who’re victims of sexual assault and/or homicide, with Sheridan stating of the Western’s premise, “It is primarily based on hundreds of precise tales similar to it.”
As a substitute, Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter shall be helmed by Kari Skogland (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) whereas the screenplay was written by Patrick Massett and his writing associate John Zinman (Friday Evening Lights, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider). Skogland has an illustrious small-screen resume and has additionally directed episodes of hit reveals like Boardwalk Empire, The Strolling Lifeless, The Punisher, and The Handmaid’s Story. Although Sheridan could also be absent for the sequel, it positive appears as if Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter is in extraordinarily succesful fingers.
When Will the Film Debut in Theaters?
Wind River: The Subsequent Chapter was formally introduced to be within the works in November 2022, and principal images passed off between March 15 and April 24, 2023, in Calgary, Alberta. As of now, the sequel doesn’t have a scheduled premiere date regardless of manufacturing having wrapped over two years in the past. In January 2025, one among its stars, Kali Reis, revealed what little she knew in regards to the impending launch of the movie whereas attending the Sundance Movie Pageant:
“You realize simply as a lot as I do, sadly. I’m actually enthusiastic about Wind River 2, as nicely. So simply maintain your eye out for it, and I am unable to wait to share it with the world.”