Lawmen: Bass Reeves premieres Sunday, November 5th on Paramount+.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves arrives on Paramount+ Sunday, November 5th, but while the series was previously billed as a Yellowstone spinoff, specifically a spinoff of Yellowstone prequel 1883, the David Oyelowo-starring series is now its own, standalone project. Now, series creator and showrunner Chad Feehan explains the reason for that shift and it turns out that the story they wanted to tell about Reeves predates 1883.
"But for me, once I learned some of the things I didn't know about Bass' life and decided where we wanted to start the story and where we wanted to end the story, it preceded 1883," he explained. He went on to add that the eight-episode series will take place from roughly 1862 to 1877 — ending six years before 1883, the year the Dutton story begins.
"Bass Reeves was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life at an extraordinary time in American history," Oyelowo told Entertainment Weekly previously."He was enslaved, he went on to fight in the Civil War, he escaped enslavement during that time, lived with Native Americans for a number of years where he learned a bunch of skills that became applicable when he went on to be a deputy marshal, and had a career that spanned nearly 40 years in law enforcement.
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