How Landman & Taylor Sheridan’s TV Empire Could Turn Fort Worth Into The Next Hollywood

Taylor Sheridan could single handedly be relocating Hollywood.

The writer, director and creator of shows like Yellowstone, its prequel and sequel spinoffs, and his most recent hit Landman, has long been a supporter of the state of Texas. That’s probably because it’s the state he currently calls home, as he lives in Weatherford, Texas at his Bosque Ranch. He also sometimes resides at his 6666 Ranch in Guthrie, Texas – which was featured in the Yellowstone series.

Sheridan has basically started building the infrastructure to do everything he needs to do for film and television in the Lone Star State. It was just last year that he and Paramount teamed up to create a production studio called SGS Studios – which is officially the largest TV and film production studio in Texas.

Sheridan and his current streaming home (he’ll soon be moving to NBCUniversal) worked with real estate development company Hillwood to bring the studio hub to the Dallas Fort Worth area:

“Hillwood, a Perot Company, today announced a landmark partnership with SGS Studios, which will operate the venture and oversee all production services, to bring large-scale film and television production to the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development in Fort Worth.

In collaboration with Paramount Television — the studio behind cultural landmarks like Yellowstone and Landman — SGS Studios has launched a cutting-edge production campus totaling 450,000 square feet, purpose-built to support four concurrent large-scale productions. This development marks the largest operating studio facility in Texas.”

As you might imagine, the Dallas-Forth Worth area has been ecstatic to host the successful creator and his various projects.

The film commissioner and director of video content for Visit Forth Worth, Taylor Hardy, told the Fort Worth Report that things really started to pick up for the Fort Worth area when they were able to show Sheridan that their city would be just as good – if not better – of an option as Dallas for shooting:

“It was kind of a turning point for our city. Before that, we were losing a lot of business to Dallas. They were representing the entire metroplex and they didn’t know our locations and our community.”

Once Sheridan became familiar with the Fort Worth area, he started taking advantage of it. It was in 2021 when he first used the city for an equestrian scene in Yellowstone. That was evidently such a good experience that the Yellowstone creator that he later returned to the area to film 1883, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, and two seasons of both Special Ops: Lioness and Landman.

And those are just the shows that viewers have already gotten to see. Fort Worth was also utilized for the two seasons of The Madison that were shot back-to-back, and the upcoming Dutton Ranch – the highly anticipated Yellowstone spinoff with Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser returning to play Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler.

Needless to say, that’s a whole lot of work that a) Fort Worth is all of the sudden benefiting from and b) isn’t going to Hollywood. In fact, the workforce in the Dallas-Fort Worth area has grown from about 500 to just shy of 3,000, and it’s believed that those people collectively earn around $100 million. Just a reminder… those are all jobs that didn’t exist in the area before Sheridan came to town.

The prolific writer and director has lifted up the Fort Worth area tremendously, and the economic impact is bringing in about $1 billion to Forth Worth on a yearly basis. And it’s all thanks to Taylor Sheridan seeing an untapped market and setting up shop in his home state. Taylor Hardy says the city is grateful for all that the creator is doing for them, when he could have just done it the Hollywood way like everyone else:

“It really is a Cinderella story for Fort Worth, and it’s just the beginning.”