The latest show affected by the ongoing writers strike is 1923.
Filming of the second season of the big-budget “Yellowstone” prequel series “1923,” starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, was originally scheduled to start June 5th in Montana.
Now, however, work on the Paramount+ series has been ‘delayed indefinitely’ due to the ongoing writers strike.
The report first emerged from NBC Montana (via Deadline) who spoke with Butte Civic Center manager Bill Melvin. The production is reportedly paying $75,000 a month to use the complex, dubbed “southwest Montana’s premier multi-purpose facility,” through the end of the year.
Melvin revealed he was contacted by the production team who alerted him that filming had been postponed as the strike continues.
The series explores the early 20th century, when pandemics, historic drought and the end of Prohibition all plague the mountain west2 and the Duttons who call it home.
Paramount+ officially confirmed a second and final eight-episode season earlier this year to finish off the saga, with both Ford and Mirren expected back alongside cast members such as Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, Michelle Randolph, James Badge Dale, Marley Shelton, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Jerome Flynn and Julia Schlaepfer.
The news comes as Taylor Sheridan’s original “Yellowstone” series, which launched a megafranchise, celebrates the fifth anniversary of its premiere today.
