After spending 5 seasons on Taylor Sheridan’s hit Western collection Yellowstone, Wes Bentley has now lastly lined up his subsequent TV present. Bentley starred in the principle solid of Yellowstone as Jamie Dutton, the adopted son of Kevin Costner’s patriarch John Dutton.
Nevertheless, in contrast to his on-screen siblings, Bentley’s future within the ever-expanding Sheridan franchise wasn’t arrange for a brand new spinoff after Yellowstone season 5’s ending. Fairly, Jamie is killed by his adoptive sister Beth within the collection finale in an act of avenging their father’s homicide. As such, whereas stars Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, and Cole Hauser are already embarking on their very own spinoff reveals, Bentley’s TV future was extra up within the air.
As reported by Selection, Wes Bentley now has his first TV follow-up as he is set to star in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming FX collection The Shards. Bentley will seem as Terry, the daddy of Hayes Warner’s character Debbie. The actor stars alongside The Shards‘ introduced solid members Evan Rachel Wooden, Kaia Gerber, Graham Campbell, Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, and Warner.
The Shards relies on Bret Easton Ellis’ 2020–2021 serialized audiobook and 2023 print novel of the identical identify, serving as a fictionalized memoir of the writer’s final yr of highschool in 1981. The autofiction horror story focuses on Bret and his pals’ dynamic with a charismatic new pupil as a serial killer on the free taunts the teenagers.
The Ryan Murphy-produced horror is not the one adaptation of Ellis’ novels within the works, as After the Hunt‘s Luca Guadagnino is ready to direct a brand new model of the writer’s seminal 1991 e book American Psycho. The latter was beforehand tailored into the 2000 cult basic film of the identical identify starring Christian Bale, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, additionally with a Nineteen Eighties-set serial killer story.
Although The Shards‘ serial killer horror plot takes Bentley removed from the narrative of Yellowstone‘s Dutton household in Montana, it does put the actor again in acquainted territory as he reunites with Ryan Murphy. Bentley beforehand starred in Murphy’s American Horror Story seasons 4, 5, and 6, with the latter coming to a conclusion in 2016. American Horror Story marked Bentley’s final TV outing earlier than Yellowstone‘s premiere in 2018, so his reunion with Murphy carefully after the Western collection’ finale is becoming.
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TV Present |
Wes Bentley Character |
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American Horror Story season 4 (2014-2015) |
Edward Mordrake |
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American Horror Story season 5 (2015-2016) |
John Lowe |
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American Horror Story season 6 (2016) |
Dylan Conrad/Ambrose White |
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Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021-2022) |
Niander Wallace, Jr. |
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Yellowstone (2018-2024) |
Jamie Dutton |
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The Shards (TBD) |
Terry |
Following FX’s announcement in July that the community could be ordering the mission to collection, The Shards has but to obtain a launch date. Nevertheless, with extra casting bulletins like Yellowstone‘s Wes Bentley rolling in, manufacturing ought to hopefully be proper across the nook.
- Launch Date
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2018 – 2024
- Community
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Paramount Community
- Showrunner
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Taylor Sheridan
- Administrators
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Stephen Kay, Taylor Sheridan, Christina Alexandra Voros, Man Ferland, John Dahl
- Writers
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John Coveny, Ian McCulloch