Trailer for Taylor Sheridan’s next Western ‘Bass Reeves’ out now - The Dallas Morning News
In debuting the official trailer for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, executive producer Chad Feehan described his passion for getting the Western drama told.
Feehan, a native of Houston, said in a promotional release that stories of Reeves reminded him of a "dime novel hero with incredibly fanciful flourishes of a gunslinging lawman pursuing the most-hardened outlaws in the Wild West."
That much is promised in the 108-second video released Tuesday by Paramount+. The show, executive produced by Fort Worth-reared Taylor Sheridan, premieres Nov. 5.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves stars David Oyelowo as Reeves, one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi River. Reeves was credited for the arrests of over 3,000 outlaws during his career, according to a Paramount+ release.
The series also stars Lauren E. Banks, Demi Singleton, Forrest Goodluck, Barry Pepper, Donald Sutherland and Dennis Quaid. Mo Brings Plenty, who was a regular in Sheridan's Yellowstone, will join Reeves as Minco Dodge, a Choctaw and friend to Reeves.
The limited series' backdrops feature several North Texas towns, which modified their historic buildings and landmarks to look like the post-Reconstruction era in Indian Territory.
Feehan, the show's creator, showrunner and writer, said he learned of Reeves over dinner with Oyelowo and sought information on the lawman.
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"I became obsessed with what I didn't know, with all of the nooks and crannies of Bass' remarkable life that aren't regularly shared, as well as with revisiting the often-told tales through a now-adult lens," he said.
One of Feehan's sources included books by Sidney Thompson, the author of historical novels about Reeves.
"He looked online, found my books and read them, liked them and basically told me, 'We can't do this project without you,' " said Thompson, a consultant for Texas Christian University's William L. Adams Center for Writing. "They bought the rights to the first two books and then asked me to be a creative consultant so that I could read the scripts and work with them."
Feehan said the show, both fact-based and fictional accounts, will attempt to tell the story of Reeves as a slave, family man and lawman.
"But more than anything, David, I and many others sought to tell a story about the human condition and its undeniable universality, the emotionality that connects all of us," he said.
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