It started with a steak and a handshake — and ended with a Hollywood production team setting up shop in the Alliance area of Fort Worth.
Taylor Sheridan doesn’t do anything halfway. So when the “Yellowstone” creator sat down for lunch with Ross Perot Jr. inside a high-dollar barn at Circle T Ranch, he wasn’t just admiring the view. He was sizing it up. Between bites, he looked around and asked the question that would flip the script on Texas filmmaking: “Can I film here?”
The answer was yes. And that lunch? It turned into nearly half a million square feet of production space — eight sound stages, two massive buildings, and a new power base for Sheridan’s ever-expanding TV empire…