Major Yellowstone Star Sets First New TV Show After Season 5 Ending md20

After spending five seasons on Taylor Sheridan’s hit Western series Yellowstone, Wes Bentley has now finally lined up his next TV show. Bentley starred in the main cast of Yellowstone as Jamie Dutton, the adopted son of Kevin Costner’s patriarch John Dutton.

However, unlike his on-screen siblings, Bentley’s future in the ever-expanding Sheridan franchise wasn’t set up for a new spinoff after Yellowstone season 5’s ending. Rather, Jamie is killed by his adoptive sister Beth in the series finale in an act of avenging their father’s murder. As such, while stars Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, and Cole Hauser are already embarking on their own spinoff shows, Bentley’s TV future was more up in the air.

As reported by Variety, Wes Bentley now has his first TV follow-up as he’s set to star in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming FX series The Shards. Bentley will appear as Terry, the father of Hayes Warner’s character Debbie. The actor stars alongside The Shards‘ announced cast members Evan Rachel Wood, Kaia Gerber, Graham Campbell, Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, and Warner.

The Shards is based on Bret Easton Ellis’ 2020–2021 serialized audiobook and 2023 print novel of the same name, serving as a fictionalized memoir of the author’s last year of high school in 1981. The autofiction horror story focuses on Bret and his friends’ dynamic with a charismatic new student as a serial killer on the loose taunts the teens.

The Ryan Murphy-produced horror isn’t the only adaptation of Ellis’ novels in the works, as After the Hunt‘s Luca Guadagnino is set to direct a new version of the author’s seminal 1991 book American Psycho. The latter was previously adapted into the 2000 cult classic movie of the same name starring Christian Bale, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, also with a 1980s-set serial killer story.

Though The Shards‘ serial killer horror plot takes Bentley far from the narrative of Yellowstone‘s Dutton family in Montana, it does put the actor back in familiar territory as he reunites with Ryan Murphy. Bentley previously starred in Murphy’s American Horror Story seasons 4, 5, and 6, with the latter coming to a conclusion in 2016. American Horror Story marked Bentley’s last TV outing before Yellowstone‘s premiere in 2018, so his reunion with Murphy closely after the Western series’ finale is fitting.

Following FX’s announcement in July that the network would be ordering the project to series, The Shards has yet to receive a release date. However, with more casting announcements like Yellowstone‘s Wes Bentley rolling in, production should hopefully be right around the corner.