Yellowstone: Daybreak

N.p. Fire and Ice Productions, 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 1 of the 2018-present television series, including one Production Draft and one Revised Draft. Included with the scripts is a bound set of eight goldenrod revision pages.

From the archive of crew member Chris Scher, with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts.

The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In the pilot episode, the family's patriarch euthanizes an injured horse, and attempts to protect his land from predatory developers. The episode originally aired on June 20, 2018, on Paramount Network.

Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker, construction accountant/estimator/buyer, and carpenter on over 20 movies, including "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1994), "The Horse Whisperer (1998), "Joy Ride" (2001), and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas, including "The Bridge" (2014), "Ozark" (2017), and "Yellowstone" (2018).

Set in Montana, and shot on location in Darby and Helena, Montana, and in Park City, Woodland, and Springville, Utah.

Production Draft:

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 8/9/17, noted as episode No. 101 and PINK PRODUCTION DRAFT, with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 78 leaves, with last page of text numbered 74. Xerographic duplication on pink stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Revised Draft:

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 8/21/17, noted as episode No. 101 and Green Revised Pages, with credit for Sheridan. 79 leaves, with last page of text numbered 74. Xerographic duplication on green stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

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