As Taylor Sheridan readies Landman for production, he’s collaborating with 1923‘s Brandon Sklenar on a hush-hush venture.
The soon-to-be-released thriller, F.A.S.T., was recently filmed in the glamorous city of Marbella, Spain, maintaining a low profile despite being a grand Warner Bros. production. Peter Welter, the executive producer and CEO of the Malaga-headquartered Fresco Film, divulged details about the filming of F.A.S.T. and the strategic approach taken by the crew.
“Our job is largely about keeping a low profile for big production companies, and we nailed it this time,” Welter remarked to SUR in English, referring to the movie that was filmed in diverse locations including Alicante, Murcia, Madrid, and Toledo.
The official description for F.A.S.T. paints a gripping tale of “a former special forces commando who finds himself in dire straits upon his return to the U.S. He’s enlisted by the DEA to head a covert operations team targeting CIA-shielded drug traffickers in his community.”
Brandon Sklenar frequently shared insights into portraying Spencer Dutton in Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel, 1923. The original Yellowstone series, which aired from 2018 to 2024, chronicled the lives of the fictional Dutton family managing a Montana ranch. Following the show’s success on the Paramount Network, Sheridan expanded the saga through spinoffs like 1883 and 1923, which have […]
In addition to Sklenar, the film stars Juliana Canfield, LaKeith Stanfield, Jason Clarke, Sam Claflin, Trevante Rhodes and Chloe Coleman.
“We needed a mansion to serve as the residence of some drug traffickers and we found it in Malaga, between Marbella and Estepona,” Welter shared. “It was a shoot in a private residential development, which allowed us to camouflage the filming very well.”
Welter praised executive producer Sheridan for the work that went into F.A.S.T., adding, “It was also a major shoot, filming over 14 weeks on three soundstages.”
Before F.A.S.T., Sklenar was catapulted into stardom thanks to the Yellowstone spinoff 1923. (Yellowstone aired from 2018 to 2024, with additional series 1883 and 1923 focusing on various ancestors of the original show’s Dutton family.)
1923 starred Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford as relatives of Kevin Costner’s John Dutton. Sklenar, meanwhile, stole scenes in the role of Spencer Dutton as season 1 followed the challenges of a historic drought and Prohibition.
As Sklenar’s career expanded with opportunities in It Ends with Us, Drop and The Housemaid, he expressed gratitude to Sheridan for believing in him before reuniting on F.A.S.T.
Taylor Sheridan found immense success after making the switch from acting to screenwriting — but he eventually moved out of Los Angeles. Sheridan originally explored a career as an actor with roles on Veronica Mars, Sons of Anarchy and more. He pivoted to writing scripts for movies, including Sicario, Hell or High Water and Wind […]
“I’m just excited to work with great directors and great actors, and just continue to learn and grow. I’d like to direct at some point in the next five years. I’m kind of just trying to learn,” Sklenar told Forbes in 2025. “The little kid in me, I would love to do a proper western — a proper, straight western — that has been a dream of mine for a long time. I kind of touch it a little bit in 1923, but that’s something that I would love to do.”
Sklenar was candid about working with Sheridan, telling Esquire in February 2025, “I owe it all to this show. I was grinding for 12 to 13 years before that, and this was the thing that did it. For [Sheridan] to put that faith in me to play this incredible character he wrote, I’ll forever be in debt to him. I’m just so honored that I got to do it and hopefully continue to do it.”
The actor later found himself involved in the legal battle between his It Ends With Us costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni when text messages were released in January referencing 1923.
“I hope your show gives you space to hustle. Especially once It comes out, week 2 will be a time that it will get especially heated for you. Just something to think about and maximize,” Lively wrote to Sklenar, who replied, “I’m working on it. They are particularly s***ty about that. But I’m gonna do everything I can to make it happen. It would be a crime to not ride that momentum.”
Sklenar noted that he was looking forward to production wrapping up on 1923 since the second season “was only meant to be the 8 and they added 7 more as soon as we started the first 8.”
“No more shows after this. That’s for damn sure,” he added.
Lively and Baldoni eventually settled their case before heading to trial.