Taylor Sheridan's WIND RIVER Is Getting a Sequel Titled WIND RIVER: THE NEXT CHAPTER
Castle Rock Entertainment has announced that it will produce a sequel to Taylor Sheridan’s intense crime drama thriller Wind River. The movie will be titled Wind River: The Next Chapter, and Kari Skogland (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) is set to direct the film with Martin Sensmeier (1883) set to reprise his role as Wind River local Chip Hanson.
Wind River was a great film, which followed veteran hunter Corey Lambert (Jeremy Renner) who came on to help rookie FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) to investigate the murder of a young woman on the Wyoming Native American reservation known as Wind River.
In Wind River: The Next Chapter, “terror has escalated on the Wind River reservation as a series of ritualistic murders remain unsolved. The FBI enlists Chip Hanson, a newly minted tracker for the U.S. Fish & Game, who becomes embroiled in a desperate and dangerous fight between the authorities, a vigilante, and the Reservation he calls home.”
The script for the sequel comes from Patrick Massett and John Zinman (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Gold), and it will be produced by Matthew George will produce alongside Rob Reiner, Michele Reiner, Derrick Rossi, Jonathan Fuhrman, Courtney Shepard and Hernan Narea.
Unfortunately, Sheridan, who wrote and directed the first movie, will have nothing to do with the sequel. He’s been keeping busy with several other TV projects. But, he’s a master storyteller and his influence will certainly be missed. I’m not sure if this team of talent will be able to match what he delivered with that first film, but we’ll see!