Beth and Rip are back in Dutton Ranch, a new Yellowstonespinoff on Paramount Network and Paramount+. The first two episodes came out this morning (May 15) and will air tonight on Paramount Network at 8/7c, with one episode weekly after that.
The opening scenes should be familiar territory; they show Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser‘s characters at their home in Dillon, Montana, from the Yellowstone series finale. But when a natural disaster strikes, they move to Rio Paloma, Texas, and start anew. Where was Dutton Ranch filmed? We got a breakdown from the show’s director and executive producer. Warning: Dutton Ranch premiere spoilers ahead!
Why did Beth and Rip move to Texas?
A lightning strike on the mountains in Dillon caused a fire that decimated the region and destroyed Beth, Rip, and Carter’s house and ranch. They heard of a ranch in Rio Paloma, Texas, called the Edwards Ranch that was looking for a trustworthy buyer to honor their family-owned business with a famous legacy in the state. The Duttons were the perfect family to take over. Beulah Jackson (Annette Bening) has long wanted to add the Edwards Ranch land to her ranch, the 10 Petal.
Where is Dutton Ranch filmed?
The series was filmed on location in Montana and in Texas, according to director, cinematographer, and executive producer Christina Alexandra Voros, who has worked with Taylor Sheridan for years on Yellowstone and The Madison. Sheridan is an executive producer on Dutton Ranch, but he didn’t create or write the series. Dutton Ranch was created by Chad Feehan.
“Some of [Episode 1] was filmed in Montana up until the fire,” she tells TV Insider in the video interview above. “The fire we actually filmed predominantly in Texas.”
Sheridan has a sprawling production studio in Fort Worth, Texas.
Are the ranch houses in Dutton Ranch real houses?
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Like Yellowstone before it, Dutton Ranch found real ranch houses to use as Beth and Rip’s house in Rio Paloma, along with Beulah’s.
The Saunders Ranch in Weatherford, Texas, serves as Beth and Rip’s house in Dutton Ranch. If you look through the Saunders Ranch gallery here, you’ll see the house that Beth and Rip call home.
“Beth and Rip’s house is a beautiful home in Whetherford, Texas, that has been owned by the Saunders family for five generations,” Voros says. “It very much is in real life what it is in the story.”
Beulah’s house on the fictional 10 Petal ranch is located outside of Fort Worth.
“We could not believe it when we found it,” Voros says. “It is so spectacular, and our production design team did a beautiful job making it very much Beulah’s. But it is a big ranch house on the property of a sprawling ranch outside of Fort Worth.”
Some scenes at the 10 Petal were filmed on the same ranch where Beulah’s house is, but not all.
“We used certain locations to cobble together that landscape,” Voros explains. “Some of it was the ranch itself, some of it was at another ranch in another location. The barn for the 10 Petal was in a different location than the actual house for the 10 Petal.”
Voros wanted Dutton Ranch to look like Yellowstone but still be independently distinct.
“A landscape very often teaches you how it needs to be filmed. The light in Texas is so different from the light in Montana. There is a harshness to it and a warmth to it,” she says. “You don’t get the blue mountaintops and the green valleys. It’s a very rich, saturated, hot environment. That helped us navigate how to tell the story in a way that felt familiar in terms of camera language but different in terms of the visual landscape.”
What time does Dutton Ranch come out?
Dutton Ranch is streaming on Friday mornings on Paramount+ before they air on the Paramount TV channel at 8/7c.
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