Taylor Sheridan is one of the most influential names in today’s streaming landscape. His name alone is enough to drive viewership, with projects that consistently dominate across platforms. As such, he’s become a prized creative, with many streamers eager to secure his work. While his dominance is now closely tied to Paramount+ through the ever-expanding Yellowstone universe, Sheridan first announced himself years earlier with a film widely regarded as his magnum opus.
Sheridan’s success story in Hollywood began in earnest when he penned the script for the 2015 action crime thriller Sicario. While not his first time writing (that title technically goes to the Mayor of Kingstown pilot), the film marked his first filmed and published work as well as his breakout, instantly showcasing the depth and precision of his voice. That script found the perfect creative partner in director Denis Villeneuve, whose gripping, atmospheric style elevated Sheridan’s work into something truly unforgettable. Sicario was an instant hit that went on to receive three Academy Award nominations, along with a Writers Guild of America nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Sicario, which stars Emily Blunt as a by-the-book FBI agent pulled into a shadowy operation along the U.S.–Mexico border, remains one of Sheridan’s most enduring hits, frequently resurfacing in streaming Top 10 charts. The film, which also features Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin, was recently available on Netflix, though the platform will later remove it from its catalog this April. For fans wondering where it will land next, that question now has an answer: Hulu has announced that Sicario will begin streaming on the platform starting May 1. Given its track record, the film is expected to once again climb the charts, continuing its impressive run across every service it calls home.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Is ‘Sicario 3’ Happening?
Sicario launched what would become an acclaimed body of work for Sheridan, serving as the first entry in his “American Frontier” trilogy alongside Hell or High Water and Wind River. Of the three, Sicario remains the only installment to successfully expand into a franchise. Its sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, saw Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro return, alongside Jeffrey Donovan and Raoul Trujillo, with Stefano Sollima stepping in to direct another commercially and critically successful chapter.
A third film, reportedly titled Sicario: Capos, has been in development for some time. In November, Brolin revealed that Sheridan was still refining the script following the addition of new producers. While no director has officially been attached, industry chatter has linked Christopher McQuarrie of the Mission: Impossible franchise to the project. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
