Taylor Sheridan's quest to work with Every Dude has now absorbed Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm has not been hurting for work of late—even if you constrict the definition of “work” simply to mean “television acting in cowboy hats.” Case in point: Hamm, who’s fresh off a typically excellent villain turn in the most recent season of Fargo, has lined up his next project, and damn if it doesn’t sound like he might end up back in a cowboy hat all over again, because Jon Hamm has just been sucked into the ever-expanding Taylor Sheridan-verse.

This is per Variety, which reports that Hamm has joined the cast of the Yellowstone creator’s latest series, Landman, which will probably turn out at least 50 percent less doofy than that name makes it sound. Hamm joins a cast that includes Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph, Jacob Lofland, Kayla Wallace, James Jordan, Mark Collie, Paulina Chávez, Demi Moore, and Hamm’s fellow member of the Stomach-Turning Fargo Villains Club, Billy Bob Thornton, who will play the series lead. The show is based on Texas Monthly’s podcast Boomtown, which charts the most recent oil boom in the state. (So this is modern Sheridan, like Yellowstone, and not the old-timey projects he’s been indulging more often of late.)

Hamm will play Monty Miller, “a titan of the Texas oil industry” who has a long personal and professional relationship with Thornton’s character, Tommy Norris. In other words, this sounds like it’s shaping up to be a pretty intense acting-off, given that Hamm and Thornton have both spent the last several years of their careers playing alpha dogs who tend to command a room. Meanwhile, Sheridan’s quest to work with Every Dude in TV continues apace; watch out, TV Dudes Of A Certain Caliber; Taylor Sheridan may be coming for you next.