{"id":8129,"date":"2026-08-24T11:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:46:33","slug":"taylor-sheridan-lawsuit-claims-stole-yellowstone-from-lauren-j-salkin-similarities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/08\/24\/taylor-sheridan-lawsuit-claims-stole-yellowstone-from-lauren-j-salkin-similarities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit claims Taylor Sheridan stole the idea for Yellowstone, so here are the wild similarities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taylor Sheridan\u2019s most famous show is undoubtedly <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/yellowstone\/\">Yellowstone<\/a>, but a new lawsuit claims he stole the idea from writer Lauren J. Salkin\u2019s 2016 pitch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/legal\/\">lawsuit<\/a>, filed in the District Court for the Central District of California on Friday, August 21, Salkin spent more than a decade creating a series named Sovereign Nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The show is described as a \u201cdramatic television series centered on tribal governance, casino-driven economic power, and a modern war over land and development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After copyrighting started in 2010 and a specific pilot was registered in 2016, Salkin\u2019s team allegedly sent the pitch to <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/05\/15\/what-dutton-ranch-showrunner-exit-means-for-yellowstone-spinoff-taylor-sheridan\/\">Sheridan\u2019<\/a>s management firm, Elevate Entertainment, in February 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The complaint claims Salkin later received the following response: \u201cTaylor thanks you very much for your interest. Unfortunately, he\u2019s unavailable for TV projects.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not long after that, Paramount ordered Sheridan\u2019s Yellowstone, which premiered in June 2018 and went on to spawn a sprawling <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/07\/03\/dutton-ranch-is-carter-dead-kelly-reilly-explains-what-finale-means-for-season-2\/\">TV universe<\/a>. The lawsuit names Sheridan, Elevate Entertainment, Paramount and NBCUniversal among its defendants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, the idea of a modern Western centred around powerful families, Native American land and territorial disputes isn&#8217;t something one writer can simply own. But Salkin&#8217;s lawsuit claims there are some far more notable similarities between the two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The alleged similarities between Yellowstone and Sovereign Nation<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8133\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8133\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rip and John Dutton in Yellowstone\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/11-1-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Paramount+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the complaint, both stories place a Native American casino at the centre of a battle for political power, money and control over the surrounding land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salkin claims the similarities become much more specific than that. The lawsuit alleges both Yellowstone and Sovereign Nation feature a key confrontation inside a tribal chairman&#8217;s casino office over plans to expand development beyond reservation boundaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Yellowstone, this alleged parallel centres on Thomas Rainwater and the Broken Rock casino, as Rainwater&#8217;s ambitions for the surrounding land gets caught up with developer Dan Jenkins\u2019 plans and their shared conflict with John Dutton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are more details the complaint explicitly says appear in both works: the use of trust land, the absence of zoning restrictions and a 99-year lease structure as the concrete mechanism for that expansion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also lists recurring master-plan imagery that is used to dramatise the battle for territorial control.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Salkin claims HBO noticed the similarities before Yellowstone even aired<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8132\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8132\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Birmingham and Danny Huston in Yellowstone\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-2-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Paramount+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the alleged similarities aren\u2019t limited to the scripts. According to the complaint, the original Sovereign Nation pitch deck named Danny Huston and Gil Birmingham among the actors she envisioned for the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both subsequently landed significant roles in Yellowstone as Dan Jenkins and Chief Thomas Rainwater respectively, in what\u2019s described as \u201cmaterially parallel structural roles\u201d to Salkin\u2019s vision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salkin even claims that she met with a top <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/hbo\/\">HBO<\/a> TV executive over Sovereign Nation, who said they rejected Sheridan\u2019s Yellowstone pitch in spring 2017 due to the similarities to her own show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the filing, Salkin\u2019s lawyers argue, \u201cWhen the works are objectively compared, the same coordinated design repeatedly appears: casino-centered institutions organize political power; the same unusual land-development mechanisms propel the conflict; parallel scenes perform the same dramatic functions; and the same actors appear in materially parallel roles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese are not merely convergences of a shared genre. Taken together with access and timing, they support a strong inference of copying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salkin is seeking damages, including profits she claims were made from the alleged infringement, as well as a court order preventing further use of her copyrighted work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Film Shrine has contacted \u200bSheridan, 101 Studios, Paramount and Elevate Entertainment for comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest film and TV updates and hot takes, <\/i><i><span draggable=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FilmShrine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like our Facebook page<\/a><\/span><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image credit: Paramount+<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheridan is accused of copying the idea from a 2016 pitch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[243,195,11,194],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explained","tag-legal","tag-taylor-sheridan","tag-tv","tag-yellowstone"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lawsuit claims Taylor Sheridan stole the idea for Yellowstone, so here are the wild similarities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new lawsuit claims Taylor Sheridan stole the idea for Yellowstone from Lauren J. 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