David Oyelowo and Dennis Quaid star in the Paramount+ Western drama now filming in Texas.
The latest Paramount+ series from Yellowstone producer/co-creator Taylor Sheridan now has a new name and format — and veteran actor Donald Sutherland as a key supporting player.
Formerly known as Bass Reeves, the upcoming drama has been retitled Lawmen: Bass Reeves — and reconceived as an anthology series that will focus on a different Wild West peacekeeper each season. Season One will be devoted to the Reeves, the iconic slave-turned-lawman who was the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River. David Oyelowo stars as Reeves, with Dennis Quaid cast as a deputy U.S. marshal named Sherrill Lynn.
Sutherland, pictured above in the 2016 Western Forsaken, will appear in a recurring role as Judge Isaac Parker, a real-life character described as “an imposing and commanding judge in the Fort Smith Courthouse with a complicated legacy.”
One of the most widely recognized and respected actors of his generation, Sutherland received an Academy Honorary Award in 2017 for his work in such movies as M*A*S*H, Ordinary People, Klute, Don’t Look Now, Fellini’s Casanova, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Hunger Games franchise. In Forsaken, he co-starred for the first time with his son, actor Kiefer Sutherland, playing a preacher who strongly disapproves of his notorious offspring’s career as a gunslinger.
