Jefferson White returned to Yellowstone within the last season (Season 5 Half 2) in fall 2024, bringing with him renewed questions on what’s happening with the reported Yellowstone spinoff, 6666 (pronounced 4 sixes). Based mostly on the ranch that White’s Yellowstone character, Jimmy Hurdstrom, moved to in Yellowstone Season 4, 6666 is claimed to be on the horizon for Taylor Sheridan‘s TV universe.
It’s been a very long time since there have been any significant updates concerning the sequence because it was introduced by Paramount in February 2021. Two prequels and three present-day spinoffs have been launched and introduced within the time since — 1883, 1923, Y: Marshals, the Beth and Rip sequence, and The Madison — and there’s reportedly one other prequel, 1944, within the works. So, what’s up with 6666? Right here’s every thing we might discover concerning the present’s actions.
Is the 6666 spinoff nonetheless taking place?
As of the time of publication, there’s no official phrase from Paramount about whether or not 6666 continues to be in improvement. The dearth of updates might imply that the present has not progressed because it was introduced, however that doesn’t essentially imply it’s not transferring ahead. The final replace was in 2022, when it was introduced that 6666 would air on Paramount Community as an alternative of Paramount+ as beforehand shared.
Sheridan is thought for writing all the Yellowstone exhibits alone. Christina Voros beforehand instructed TV Insider that working with Sheridan means understanding that there’ll generally be lengthy stretches of time between updates on a challenge.
“We don’t know till we get the scripts what the story is. And when the time to inform the story is upon us, there might be a script in my inbox,” she mentioned in an interview concerning the Yellowstone sequence finale. “And I might be actually completely happy to saddle up.”
“I truthfully don’t know the way Taylor chooses to inform which tales he chooses to inform when,” she added about 6666 and 1944 particularly. “I believe he has closed quite a lot of doorways on Yellowstone this season. There are clearly characters that we are going to not see once more as a result of they have been dispatched. However I believe he has left some doorways open, and there’s some doorways that I can’t inform in the event that they’re locked or not but. However we are going to know once we cross by them.”
What’s the Yellowstone spinoff 6666 about?
“Based when Comanches nonetheless dominated West Texas, no ranch in America is extra steeped within the historical past of the West than the 6666,” Paramount’s sequence description mentioned upon its announcement. “Nonetheless working because it did two centuries earlier than, and encompassing a complete county, the 6666 is the place the rule of legislation and the legal guidelines of nature merge in a spot the place essentially the most harmful factor one does is the subsequent factor… The 6666 is synonymous with the cruel endeavor to lift the best horses and livestock on this planet, and finally the place world class cowboys are born and made.”
Who’s within the 6666 forged?
A forged checklist has not been revealed, nevertheless it’s been presumed that White would anchor the spinoff on condition that his fan-favorite Yellowstone character is how the ranch received launched within the first place. There was a Jimmy-in-Texas-focused episode in Yellowstone Season 4 that felt like a backdoor pilot for 6666, and his enhancements as a cowboy and updates on his life typically have been a notable a part of his return in Yellowstone Season 5 Half 2. The Dutton ranch cowboys additionally spent a big chunk of months dwelling on the 4 Sixes ranch whereas holding their cattle protected from the Montana winter within the last season, additional laying the groundwork for extra Yellowstone characters to look on this reported spinoff.
Jen Landon‘s Teeter took a job on the 4 Sixes in Yellowstone‘s last episode, opening up the door for her to be a personality on this new sequence, ought to or not it’s set within the current day. Sheridan’s personal Yellowstone character, Travis Wheatly, additionally has ties to that ranch, additional implying his curiosity in increasing his western universe’s drama down south. Jimmy’s spouse, Emily (Kathryn Kelly), might be a most important character as effectively, if Jimmy is a lead of this sequence.
White confirmed his Yellowstone return in November 2024, one week earlier than Yellowstone Season 5 Half 2 premiered on Paramount Community and CBS. The actor shared images on Instagram taken whereas filming down on the real-life 4 Sixes Ranch in Texas in summer time 2024. He ended up showing in a number of episodes of the ultimate season, which got here to a detailed in December.
Jimmy went from being utterly unskilled on a ranch to holding his personal as a cowboy due to his tough however youth on the Dutton Yellowstone Ranch, which included an terrible rodeo accident that left him severely injured. His relationship with Kevin Costner‘s John Dutton improved a lot that he despatched the younger cowboy to the ranch in Texas to additional enhance his abilities in Season 4.
Jimmy didn’t admire it at first, however he ultimately realized the way it might change his life. When the time got here for him to return to Montana, Jimmy realized his place was in Texas — and with the girl he had fallen in love with. John noticed such a marked change in Jimmy, he fortunately let him break his vow to the Dutton ranch and transfer to Texas.
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