Whereas his time on Landman could also be at an finish for now, James Jordan is staying within the Taylor Sheridan enterprise with the return of the creator’s underrated motion collection.
Having first launched in July 2023, Lioness is an espionage-driven motion collection primarily centered on Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara, a CIA senior case officer main the titular undercover counter-terrorism workforce. With season 2 proving to be a far greater vital hit and garnering bigger rankings than its predecessor, Paramount+ confirmed season 3’s improvement in August 2025, with filming later kicking off in October.
Now, in an interview with ScreenRant‘s Grant Hermanns for the Landman season 2 finale, Jordan provided some perception on Lioness season 3’s progress. The actor, who has loved a constant collaboration with Sheridan for the previous decade, revealed that “we have about six weeks left” of filming on the following chapter of the motion collection, saying his focus in the mean time is on his character reasonably than the lately confirmed Landman season 3.
In how the present is evolving with its subsequent season, Jordan started by chuckling as he denoted all of Sheridan’s exhibits “are magnificent” and expressed his want to “be on all of them, however I’ve received to sleep typically.” He then went on to acknowledge Lioness as having the most important scale of Sheridan’s roster, recalling having filmed in Mallorca, Morocco and all alongside the East Coast in season 1, whereas season 2 additional raised the stakes with its air-based motion sequences
James Jordan: Season 2 took us to the air. We carried out the aerial ingredient of fight for these particular operators. We introduced in some improbable pilots of their helicopters, and we noticed that.
Cautious to not enterprise too far into spoilers, Jordan did promise “the dimensions is even greater” coming into Lioness season 3, with the manufacturing on the time of the interview being set in North Texas, however the story is ready to “take us everywhere in the world.” Praising the brand new episodes as being “improbable,” the star went on to clarify that the brand new season will all additional “the microscope on what these of us do,” taking viewers “slightly nearer” into who they’re and “why they’re so dedicated to Joe“:
James Jordan: The writing simply will get deeper and deeper, and I feel that is what audiences need. They’re launched to a personality, now they wish to see what’s below the pores and skin of that character, what actually makes him tick. And Taylor being an actor himself, I feel he needs to analyze character. He does not care a lot about plot, neither can we. We wish to know what makes these of us tick, and audiences do too, and that is what retains them coming again, I feel. So, we’re excited to discover that as nicely.
Jordan has starred within the Lioness forged since its launch as Two Cups, an skilled particular operations soldier and one of many key members of Joe’s QRF workforce, alongside Jill Wagner’s Bobby, LaMonica Garrett’s Tucker, Austin Hébert’s Randy and Jonah Wharton’s Tex. Whereas having showcased loads of tactical expertise throughout each seasons, the season 2 finale notably nearly noticed Two Cups meet his demise, when the workforce’s journey to Iran to take out two nuclear scientists leaves him and others wounded from gunshot wounds, however narrowly surviving till reinforcements’ arrival.
To this point, plot particulars have been saved below wraps for Lioness season 3, although the forged has expanded with the additions of Sheridan veterans Elizaveta Neretin and Ian Bohen. The Mayor of Kingstown star is ready to seem in a recurring position as a world operative Joe interacts with in her newest mission, whereas the Yellowstone and Wind River alum will seem in a collection common position as a by-the-book Delta Drive operator and K9 handler.
Whereas Jordan might have been cautious to not share too many particulars about Lioness season 3, what he did share does level to Sheridan persevering with to study the teachings from the present’s divisive first season by sustaining a give attention to his characters, at the same time as he expands the present’s motion scale. Season 2 did nonetheless take the motion abroad and ship the high-stakes shootouts anticipated of the collection, but additionally centered extra on Joe’s house life in a means that was extra fleshed out than its predecessor.
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With Jordan teasing that season 3 will proceed to direct a microscope at Joe’s QRF workforce, it is going to be fascinating to see if Lioness characters like Two Cups and Tucker have extra of their backstory and private lives explored. Other than the reveal of Max Martini’s Tracer being an ex of Bobby, little or no has been shared in regards to the private lives of anybody apart from Joe, giving Sheridan the prospect to do one thing completely different within the new season.
The opposite main takeaway from Jordan’s Lioness season 3 replace is that filming is already a great majority of the best way performed, having only a month left till it is completed. earlier seasons’ turnaround instances from filming wrap to launch, this might put Sheridan’s underrated motion collection again on the display screen earlier than the top of the summer time. Nevertheless, as he’s at present getting ready for the premieres of The Madison and Yellowstone spinoff Marshals, Sheridan and Paramount+ can also elect to save lots of the collection for a late 2026 return.
- Launch Date
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July 23, 2023
- Showrunner
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Taylor Sheridan
- Administrators
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Anthony Byrne, Paul Cameron
- Writers
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Taylor Sheridan, Jill Wagner