‘Yellowstone’s’ Mo Brings Plenty Joins The Cast Of ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’

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Man, the cast for this new Taylor Sheridan series in the works, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, keeps getting better and better.

The 1883 offshoot already boasts a stellar cast thus far, starring David Oyelowo as Bass Reeves, the first Black Deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi, along with Garrett Hedlund, Shea Whigham, Dennis Quaid, and more.

With that being said, we have a Yellowstone star officially joining the cast as well, and it’s Mo Brings Plenty, who plays Thomas Rainwater’s righthand man on the show.

According to TVLine, Mo Brings Plenty will play the role of Minco Dodge, a Choctaw Native American who is friends with Bass Reeves.

Others who have recently been added to the cast include Dale Dickey, who will play the seen-it-all Widow Dolliver, Tosin Morohunfola, who will play “Jackrabbit” Cole, a Union soldier turned prisoner who rides alongside Reeves, and Margot Bingham as Sara Jumper, a Black Seminole Native American who Reeves owes a huge debt of thanks.

The show’s storyline lists Bass Reeves as:

“Reeves, known as the greatest frontier hero in American history, worked in the post-Reconstruction era as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory, capturing over 3,000 of the most dangerous criminals without ever being wounded.”

It’s also believed that Reeves inspired the fictional Lone Ranger, as well.

Taylor Sheridan To Direct Pilot Episode

Bossman is getting back behind the camera.

After the dramatic conclusion of 1883, Paramount announced that Taylor Sheridan was going to be put hard to work on a number of new shows under the Yellowstone umbrella of shows.

And when fans were looking for a sequel to 1883, they announced that there would only be one season of the show and that a new show titled 1932 (now changed to 1923) would essentially be the second chapter of the Yellowstone prequel story.

They did however, promise a few “bonus episodes” of 1883, which we now know will be in the form a side story about legendary Black lawman, Bass Reeves.

The six-part series will star David Oyelowo as Reeves, a legendary lawman of the wild west, who’s known as one of the greatest frontier heroes in American history, and is believed to be the inspiration behind The Lone Ranger.

Reeves worked as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory during the post-reconstruction era, capturing more than 3,000 of the most dangerous criminals of that time period, without ever being wounded.

And according to Deadline, Taylor Sheridan is going to direct the first two episodes of the limited-series.

And Oyelowo admits that he had to think about it when Taylor asked if he could direct the first two episodes:

“I opened the text and it said, ‘I love the script. I hope you don’t mind if I direct it, sir?’ I was like, ‘let me think about it.’

 He did call me ‘sir’, that’s a Southern thing. I think he was just being polite. He did ask, which I appreciated. The reality is that he is one of the best storytellers on the planet. 

My whole thing is that we’ve got to tell a story worthy of that history, but worthy of a global audience and he’s one of those rare guys, and I’ve worked with a few of them, and he’s one of those rare ones who can really do that. It’s a big deal.”

However, he adds that he would like a Black director to finish the job:

“We have to populate the show with a bunch of Black people to make sure that going forward the next Taylors are Black and brown and that there’s a bunch of them, so that it doesn’t become a scarcity of the top-flight Black directors.”

But aside from the directing, it’s the story of Bass Reeves that’s compelling. A story that is… well, unheard of:

“The mortality rate of being a deputy marshal back then was so high that the fact that he had 3,000 arrests, and a career that spanned into his 60s, these were things that were just unthinkable.”

There’s still no word on the release date for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, but it looks like Daniel made it to cowboy camp.

Get excited.

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