Taylor Sheridan’s Forgotten Jon Bernthal Western Officially Charts Netflix Comeback
By Rohan Naahar
Published Sep 17, 2026, 5:30 AM EDT
Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
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Taylor Sheridan is best-known for creating some of the biggest shows of the last decade, especially his magnum opus, the Paramount+ series Yellowstone. His work for the big screen, however, is just as formidable. Sheridan is known for his American Frontier trilogy, comprising three neo-Westerns — Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River. While the first two were directed by other filmmakers — Denis Villeneuve and David Mackenzie, to be precise — Sheridan considers Wind River to be his directorial debut. He has directed two other movies as well. The first was a low-budget horror film that he has mostly disowned, and the second was a neo-Western that became a victim of Warner Bros.' infamous Project Popcorn.
This was when the studio decided to release every film on its 2021 slate day-and-date on HBO Max and in theaters. While some films, such as Godzilla vs. Kong and Dune, did surprisingly well at the box office despite being simultaneously available on streaming, others weren't as lucky. Sheridan's Wind River follow-up fell into the second category. The Oscar-nominated writer-director rounded up an impressive cast for the film, headlined by Angelina Jolie and also featuring Aidan Gillen, Jon Bernthal, and Nicholas Hoult. The movie didn't set the box office on fire, but it appears to have found an audience at home thanks to a recent release on Netflix.