Kelsey Asbille Was Killed Off "Marshals" For Behind The Scenes Streaming Issues
- Dan Lalonde
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What is your favorite Taylor Sheridan show? I still am backing my conspiracy theory that Sheridan is an AI writing program, as he currently has six shows on the air or being filmed. That's a lot of dedication to sit down and write. I can barely write this article without checking my Facebook ten times.
Hollywood insider Matthew Belloni of Puck is reporting that there may have been more sinister reasons to kill off Kelsey Asbille's Monica Dutton from 'Marshals' than just for storyline reasons. Absille played the wife of Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) on 'Yellowstone' for five seasons before she was killed off-screen by cancer caused by toxic dumping on Indigenous lands some time before the first episode of the spin-off 'Marshals.'
It's all due to complicated behind-the-scenes legal streaming issues between Paramount+ and Peacock. NBCUniversal acquired the streaming rights to 'Yellowstone' to air on Peacock before Paramount+ was created in 2021. To avoid similar complications with 'Marshals', which first airs on CBS, the creators were trying to make the show a complete spin-off rather than a direct continuation of "Yellowstone' and unfortunately, Asbille was the sacrificial lamb.
The show already features three returning actors with Breckin Merrill as Monica and Kayce's son Tate, Gil Birmingham as Broken Rock Reservation Chief Thomas Rainwater, and Mo Brings Plenty. Paramount used lawyers to create the upcoming spin-off 'Dutton Ranch' starring Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly, to also be allowed to avoid having to air on Peacock.
Taylor Sheridan is only involved in 'Marshal's as a producer and not a writer, which may be the problem, according to some critics' reviews, which has left the show not knowing what it wants to be.
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