Clint Eastwood

Taylor Sheridan is a filmmaker and writer who has put the American frontier at the center of nearly all his stories. One of the most prominent examples is ...

McCarthy's Border trilogy examines the lasting consequences of a life of violence and the extinction of the cowboy or outlaw, like "Unforgiven." Hopefully, Sheridan's growing body of work and continual involvement in "Yellowstone" will, in turn, inspire other young filmmakers to keep the genre alive. The existential westerns of Cormac McCarthy permeate through much of Sheridan's work, with books like McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" serving as a thematic equal to Eastwood's film "Unforgiven." The themes and aesthetic of "Unforgiven" can be seen not just in "Yellowstone," but in Sheridan's other works. The same can be said for the works of Cormac McCarthy, whose novels "Blood Meridian" and "The Crossing" have the same dreary and subtle storytelling techniques seen in another piece of Sheridan's, "Wind River." One of the most prominent examples is "