![]() ![]() He then fleshed out the story (via a “bible” that outlined the mythology) to secure a series order. Amazon initially bought the pilot script, written by Watkins on spec. The production came about after a long process, and not without difficulty. (The hole, for the record, was fair game for these interviews.) Secrecy and collaboration went hand in hand. The creative team was discovering the show, it seemed, as they were making it. She’d learn about huge twists only moments before a script arrived, via a phone call from Watkins. And you can’t blame her: She spent dozens of weeks in Santa Fe, where the season was filmed, immersed in a wild ride. “Can we talk about the hole?” Lili Taylor isn’t sure what she can reveal for her first interview about Outer Range. “I sent him the script and lo and behold, he fell for it.” ![]() “I talked about how, in not just his performance in No Country for Old Men but so many other films too, he’s shaped the American imagination about the West,” Watkins tells me. Watkins wrote a letter to his dream star, whom he’d never met, to make his pitch. Here was an icon of the modern Western, with the gravitas and résumé to anchor a tale both embracing and subverting of the genre’s well-worn tropes. Sure enough, the actor was at the top of creator Brian Watkins’s list to lead the show, which launches on Prime Video in April. Brolin quickly compares the series to No Country for its “weird” factor. “When I see a very serious genre hybrid-ed with a hue of absurdity, I get really excited.”Įnter Outer Range: an expansive, mind-bending, extraterrestrial odyssey through the mountains and ranches of Wyoming. “It’s a genre that I understand, that’s fascinating to me, that I have personal connection with,” Brolin tells me of the Western, which won the best-picture Oscar in 2008. But like the Coens, Brolin knew he was right for the role. “Everybody was confused why I was hired for No Country for Old Men-they were like, ‘Why him? He was supposed to have happened and didn’t,’” Brolin says. Yet his career had stalled-until the Coen brothers came knocking. He’d deliberately left the small screen in the mid-2000s, following his 2003 NBC flop Mister Sterling he wanted to make movies, to move from one character to the next. For a time, Josh Brolin was done with television. ![]()
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