Heads up, Western fans: Netflix will soon release “Ransom Canyon,” a film set in a Texas town inspired by a Texas writer with no shortage of drama on the ranch.
The film is about “where love, loss, and loyalty collide beneath the crimson mesas of Texas Hill Country,” Netflix said. “As three ranching family dynasties are locked in a contest for control of the land, outside forces intent on destroying their way of life threaten their lives and legacies.”
After the recent success of the romantic series Sweet Magnolias, Firefly Lane, and Virgin River and the cinematic appeal of the modern western, such as Yellowstone and its spin-offs, Netflix has married the two and created the series inspired by Texas author Jodi Thomas. The new series “Ransom Canyon” is based on Thomas’s work from a series of books released from 2015 through 2019, according to What’s on Netflix.
April Blair is the executive producer of the series, which stars Josh Duhamel, Minka Kelly, James Brolin, Eoin Macken, Lizzy Greene, Garrett Wareing, Andrew Liner, Jack Schumacher, Marianly Tejada, and Philip Winchester.
While the new Netflix was filmed in New Mexico, according to early reporting, the film takes place in a small Texas town as a romance-fueled family drama and contemporary Western.
