Could we see a return of westerns?

Westerns thread

TV westerns thread

Well now that the public (or a vocal minority) has been all against cops, maybe the Cowboy is now ready to make a comeback.

Its funny, everything was Cowboy movies, for action movies, TV shows....until the 70s.....then the white hat Cowboy becomes the rogue Cop....and its all Cop shows and movies through 80s....just killing whomever because they were in the way..

It's kinda sad we basically have been pigeonholed for decades for dramatic action....Cops and Cowboys....

They're the same formula, so now that cops are seen as some type of pariah by some, the obvious box office replacement is a return to the Cowboy. Don't think Dirty Harry would sell today.

I'm thankful I get the GRIT channel on DirecTv channel 81. Wish they would come out with some new movies I like Calvary westerns.

DEI or common sense was definitely a thing back in the day. Pernell Roberts, AKA Adam left Bonanza because studios kept hiring White people to play native roles instead of actual Native Americans.

In the greatest television western of all time, Deadwood, the central story is a mining settlement on granted Indian territory. And there is exactly one Indian in one scene in one episode. You don't have to diversify to make good stories. We live in a time where good stories are few and far between.

One thing that has hurt too is that they are just expensive to make. And rarely do they do well at the box office. So studios aren't too inclined to do them from a financial standpoint.

I love the genre, but I've given up hope on it being the genre it used to be. One good thing though is that TV westerns are thriving pretty good. You can definitely get your western fix streaming.

I don’t think there’s a big audience for westerns anymore.

I like a few, but personally I find them kind of dull after a while. They almost all have the exact same aesthetics. Same scenery, same sounds of horses clopping and whatnot. I bet it’s hard to come up with compelling stories that haven’t already been told when the genre is so confined. They have to take place in the west and will usually be set in the 1800s. That’s the landscape and that’s the technology available for the story.