‘Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan Shuts Door On Previously Announced ‘6666’ Spinoff: “I Would Never Do That”
Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan has definitively ruled out making a 6666 spinoff based on the real-life Four Sixes Ranch in Texas, telling the Rodeo Time podcast "there's never going to be one" and "I would never fictionalize that ranch." The announcement disappoints fans who had expected such a series since character Jimmy Hurdstrom was sent to the ranch in Yellowstone's fourth season, and matters because it closes off one of the franchise's most anticipated but unconfirmed expansions.
Sheridan, who bought the working ranch with a group of investors in 2020, said he refuses to "trivialise" or "invent drama" about the real cowboys and families who live and work there. Paramount had announced a 6666 series at its 2022 Upfront presentation, with Sheridan, John Linson, Art Linson, David Glasser, Ron Burkle and Bob Yari attached as executive producers via 101 Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios, but it never materialised. The wider Yellowstone universe continues regardless, with 1883 (2021), 1923 (2022), Marshals and Dutton Ranch already released.
- Taylor Sheridan confirms the 6666 Yellowstone spinoff will never happen
- He won't fictionalise the real, working Four Sixes Ranch he co-owns
- Other Yellowstone spinoffs (1883, 1923, Marshals, Dutton Ranch) continue
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Sheridan has built a sprawling franchise around Yellowstone since it launched in 2018, spinning off prequels and companion shows that trace the fictional Dutton family across different eras. One thread fans had been watching closely involved the Four Sixes Ranch, a real working cattle ranch in Texas that Sheridan and a group of investors bought in 2020, and which featured in Yellowstone itself when a character was sent there to work.
Paramount had signalled in 2022 that a dedicated series set at the ranch, often referred to by its "6666" brand, was in development, with Sheridan among a group of producers named to the project through the studios behind the Yellowstone shows. No series ever appeared, leaving its status unclear for several years even as other parts of the franchise, including prequels set in the 1880s and 1920s and further spin-offs, went ahead.
This matters to followers of the franchise because the 6666 project was one of the last unresolved pieces of the Yellowstone universe, and Sheridan's own connection to the real ranch, as an owner rather than just a storyteller, made its fate different from the franchise's other fictional spin-offs.