Every Movie Directed By Taylor Sheridan

While he’s best known for writing acclaimed TV shows like Yellowstone, Taylor Sheridan has also directed three different movies over the years. Taylor Sheridan has had a storied career in show business. He started out as an actor in some notable projects like Sons of Anarchy and Veronica Mars, but he gained a huge amount of fame after writing some acclaimed movies like Hell or High Water and, eventually, Yellowstone and its various spinoff shows. In the midst of his meteoric rise to notoriety, Sheridan also became a director, and he’s directed three different movies so far.

Many of the movies Sheridan wrote are already well known – such as Sicario and Without Remorse – but fans of the writer may not be as familiar with his directing career. In fact, Sheridan has quite a bit of experience in the director’s chair: he’s directed episodes of many of his shows, including Yellowstone, Landman, Lioness, and more. What’s even more interesting is that Sheridan’s directing career actually predates his writing jobs, and the first movie he ever directed is so different from the rest of his filmography that it thoroughly surprised me.

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Vile (2011)

Sheridan’s Directorial Debut Came Before His First Writing Credit

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Vile

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Horror

Thriller

Release Date

August 25, 2011

Runtime

88 minutes

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    April Matson

    Tayler

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    Nick

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    Akeem Smith

    Tony

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    Greg Cipes

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Taylor Sheridan’s first turn in the director’s chair is also unique for a number of other reasons. Sheridan first directed the 2011 horror film Vile, which came out just a year after his last time playing David Hale in Sons of Anarchy and long before his first writing credit for Sicario in 2015. Vile seems to be inspired by the Saw franchise of horror films, as it follows a group of people who have been abducted and fitted with a device that harvests chemicals produced by the brain as it feels pain. The victims have to work together to inflict enough pain on one another to leave alive.

Taylor Sheridan as Charles Goodnight in 1883 and as Cody Spears in Lioness

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Sheridan certainly isn’t well-known for his horror film, but Vile does provide an early insight into the creator he would become with his later projects. Vile largely centers around the interpersonal drama of the survivors trying to figure out how to produce enough pain to survive, and Sheridan’s directing was already up to the task of depicting their descent into torture and tribalism. Vile is also reminiscent of some of Sheridan’s more controversial decisions, such as Donald Whitfield’s torture scenes in 1923. He may not have written it, but Vile was a preview of what Sheridan could do well before he garnered massive fame.

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Wind River (2017)

Wind River Proved Sheridan Could Direct Just As Well As He Could Write

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Wind River

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Crime

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Taylor Sheridan

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After writing both Sicario and Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan combined his two creative talents for the first time with Wind River. Sheridan both wrote and directed Wind River, and it was largely due to his extensive involvement behind the camera that it became one of the best neo-Westerns ever made. Of course, it helped that Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner starred in Wind River, but Sheridan left an indelible mark on the film through his directing. Wind River is filled with the swooping nature shots, the heated interpersonal drama, and the high-octane action that most of Sheridan’s movies are defined by.

What really makes Wind River stand out among the movies Taylor Sheridan has directed is the clear love he has for the people and places the film is about. Each shot of Wind River looks like it was planned out by a person who deeply cares for the West and the people of the Northern Arapaho tribe, a description which fits Sheridan to a T. In Sheridan’s typical way of showing his love, however, Wind River also highlights some of the ugly truths of its subject: in this case, the countless Native American women who go missing each year, and whose disappearances are never solved.

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Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

Sheridan Could Dominate The Action Thriller Genre With More Movies Like Those Who Wish Me Dead

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Those Who Wish Me Dead

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Thriller

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6/10

Release Date

May 14, 2021

Director

Taylor Sheridan

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The last movie Taylor Sheridan directed was 2021’s Those Who Wish Me Dead, starring Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Hoult. Those Who Wish Me Dead really rounds out Sheridan’s time in the director’s chair and proved that he could handle an enormous range of genres and tones. Vile showed that Sheridan was adept with horror, Wind River was further evidence that he’s great at Westerns, and Those Who Wish Me Dead proved he was more than capable of directing an action-thriller. Its fast-paced action and intense conspiracy made for a great film, and Sheridan’s directing was just as good as his writing.

Movies Written By Taylor Sheridan

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Release Date

Sicario

2015

Hell or High Water

2016

Wind River

2017

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

2018

Without Remorse

2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead

2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead is also probably the best proof that Taylor Sheridan isn’t just great at interpersonal drama, he’s also great at intrapersonal stories. Hannah’s guilt is a major recurring element of Those Who Wish Me Dead, and Sheridan clearly did something right to evoke Angelina Jolie’s impressive and moving performance as a woman with a very dark past. It’s hard to say if a different director would have understood the script and been able to direct Jolie as well as Taylor Sheridan did in Those Who Wish Me Dead.

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Taylor Sheridan

Birthdate

May 21, 1970

Birthplace

Cranfills Gap, Texas, USA

Notable Projects

Sicario, Wind River, Hell or High Water

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