1/18/2024 0 Comments Yellowstone netflix seriesKate Linebaugh: One of the bigger expenses on the show are the sets. And at this point, David Glasser, who's managing the production, is asking his colleagues, "Are you serious? We can't find a farrier in Montana?" And so they flew two farriers from Texas to Montana to work with the horses. And they needed a farrier to work the horses. A farrier is someone who comes and applies horseshoes to horses. And the show was filming in Montana, and they needed a farrier who is, which is a word I learned, reporting the story. Catering bills would come in double what you would expect. At one point on this latest season of Yellowstone, there were invoices put into the show's production offices for 24 horse saddles, and they came to about $23,000. Kate Linebaugh: It's like every single thing on Yellowstone's set is drenched in excess.Įrich Schwartzel: You might allocate $35,000 for props, but then the bill comes in and they cost $70,000. Everything that can be put on screen should be put on screen. There's really a voracious appetite behind the scenes too for every possible location, every possible prop, every possible collection of cattle. More expensive than HBO's video game adaptation, The Last of Us. We're talking more expensive than the Game of Thrones spinoff. Erich says that comes out to roughly $500,000 per minute.Įrich Schwartzel: It makes 1923 among the most expensive shows on TV or ever made. The first season of its prequel series, 1923, which is set in 1923, cost the studio $200 million to produce. Paramount spends a lot of money on Yellowstone and its universe of spinoffs. Coming up on the show, why the man behind Yellowstone can't be corralled. Kate Linebaugh: Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business and power. Which begs the question, why is Yellowstone so expensive?Įrich Schwartzel: I think this is a story about the very weird, very idiosyncratic way that Hollywood does business and what can happen when a hit maker in Hollywood finds that perfect storm of having a hit show and having a studio that can't afford to alienate him. But last week, Paramount announced a $1 billion loss last quarter, in part because of increased spending on streaming content. Paramount ordered more and more shows from Sheridan, making him one of the most powerful showrunners in Hollywood, power that Sheridan has used to create an empire. And not long after the show debuted on Paramount, it became one of the most popular shows on cable. Kate Linebaugh: Yellowstone was created by the writer and director, Taylor Sheridan. So it seems like it's kind of taking us back to the John Wayne days in some ways, but it's also like Gray's Anatomy on a ranch. It's taken off with this really potent combination of just kind of messy family drama and frontier justice. Speaker 6: This might be the only man who can outride him.Įrich Schwartzel: A film on location, they have a lot of horses, they have a lot of cattle. It stars Kevin Costner as the kind of patriarch of this ranching dynasty, and it's trying to be as true to the setting as possible. Our colleague, Erich Schwartzel says one episode can cost close to $20 million.Įrich Schwartzel: Yellowstone is a TV show that 20 years ago, we would've thought had the production quality and scale of a big screen theatrical movie. Kate Linebaugh: But there's one show that stands out, Yellowstone. Speaker 4: Not everyone can live this life. Kate Linebaugh: And Succession has billionaires on yachts. Kate Linebaugh: The Mandalorian has space battles. Speaker 2: And all the dragons roared as one. Kate Linebaugh: Hollywood is making a lot of expensive television these days, and every show has something. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. This transcript was prepared by a transcription service.
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