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" I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day. "

Taylor Sheridan

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" I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three. "

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