Fresh off an incredible run in “Fargo” season five, Jon Hamm will now be joining the all-star cast of “Landman,” the next series from “Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan, Paramount revealed Thursday.
Hamm will take on a recurring role in the series as Morty Miller, Paramount said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller. He’ll be a “titan of the Texas oil industry who has a long personal and professional relationship with Tommy Norris,” the lead character, played by Billy Bob Thornton. As actress Demi Moore was just announced in the role of “Cami, wife to one of the most powerful oil men in Texas and friend of Tommy Norris,” I am going to guess that Hamm will play her husband in “Landman.”
The series is described in the statement as “a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs,” as based on the podcast “Boomtown.” Paramount further stated the story is an “upstairs/downstairs” of “roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.”
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Sheridan is a notorious anthropology nerd (not the store, guys, the science), so I am beyond excited to see how he interprets this tale into the small screen. (RELATED: Country Music Star Teams Up With Taylor Sheridan For Powerful Video)
If there’s anything we can count on Sheridan to do, it’s to cultivate the most intertwined story, rarely told through direct dialogue. Thankfully, he doesn’t lean into vomitous metaphor like other notable television and film writers, but doesn’t dumb down the subtext either. I am so ready for this series.