The latest Dutton Ranch trailer arrives with two major surprises.
For starters, Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) and Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) are not in Dillon, Montana. They’ve settled in South Texas, fully leaving the legacy of the Yellowstone Ranch far behind them.
The second reveal is that Annette Bening’s character, Beulah Jackson, is seemingly playing the season’s main villain. I had Ed Harris clocked for the role after the Westworld star was announced to join the series, but he’s playing another character entirely.
“My ranch is 190 years old, and I’ve worked very hard to protect it,” Bening says in the trailer. Sounds a lot like John Dutton, if you ask me, and she’s about to get on Rip and Beth’s bad side. “Rip and Beth have secrets,” she continues, “and people with secrets can be useful. Corruptible even.”
Outside of the character reveals, the latest Dutton Ranch trailer also hints at a full-cast shootout, a massive wildfire, and Rip discovering a dead body. Then, at the end of the preview, he throws the body down a well. I guess violence really can’t escape the Dutton name. You can watch the new trailer below.
“As Beth and Rip fight to build a future together–far from the ghosts of Yellowstone–they collide with brutal new realities and a ruthless rival ranch that will stop at nothing to protect its empire,” Paramount revealed in the show’s official logline. “In South Texas, blood runs deeper, forgiveness is fleeting, and the cost of survival might just be your soul.”
The Yellowstone spinoff premieres its first two episodes on Paramount+ on Friday, May 15. The series also features Finn Little (returning as Rip and Beth’s adopted son, Carter), Jai Courtney, J.R. Villarreal, Marc Menchaca, Natalie Alyn Lind, and Juan Pablo Raba. Chris Feehan serves as the official showrunner after working on Ray Donovan and Lawman: Bass Reeves, while Christina Alexandra Voros (The Madison) directs.
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan serves as an executive producer for Dutton Ranch, though it turns out that he isn’t penning the script. That’s a bit of a worry for Yellowstone fans after what’s happened on Marshals so far, but Dutton Ranch looks like it contains more of that original Yellowstone flavor. As Rip tells Beth in the new footage, “We’ll make it work.”
