{"id":242936,"date":"2026-04-10T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:09:07","slug":"texas-gop-taps-hollywood-director-for-new-alamo-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242936\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas GOP taps Hollywood director for new Alamo doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you grew up in San Antonio in the late 1980s or later, chances are that sometime during your childhood, you took a field trip downtown to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/lifestyle\/article\/san-antonio-texas-revolution-alamo-mexico-16751527.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Alamo<\/a> and watch\u00a0Alamo: The Price of Freedom at the IMAX Theater. Call it a San Antonio rite of passage.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday (April 7), the office of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ltgov.texas.gov\/2026\/04\/07\/taylor-sheridan-to-produce-direct-alamo-battle-film-for-new-museum\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news brief<\/a> stating that Patrick invited Sheridan to direct a new film on the Alamo and that Sheridan accepted the request. The film will be screened at the Alamo Visitor Center and Museum, inside its immersive 4D theater.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cOnce I saw the plan for the theater, I knew there was only one screenwriter, film producer, and director in the world to make this film for the Alamo Museum \u2013 Taylor Sheridan,\u201d Patrick said in a statement. \u201cOver the last decade, Taylor has told the story of the American West \u2013 the people, the land, the depth, and the history \u2013 in a way no other filmmaker has. In addition to his amazing film portfolio, Taylor is a native Texan who knows and loves our state and its history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheridan was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and raised in Fort Worth. His mother was originally from Waco. The family purchased a ranch in Cranfills Gap, a small town in central Texas. Sheridan graduated from R.L. Paschal High School in Fort Worth and went on to study theater at Texas State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Alamo is the very bedrock Texas was founded upon,\u201d Sheridan said in a statement. \u201cTo chronicle the sacrifice made by the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives defending the Alamo is an honor I eagerly accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with creating the popular Western TV series Yellowstone, some of Sheridan\u2019s other credits include TV series Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/culture\/article\/landman-billy-bob-thornton-taylor-sheridan-21239513.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Landman<\/a>, and The Madison, which premiered on Paramount+ in March. Sheridan was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Screenplay category for the 2016 contemporary Western crime drama Hell or High Water.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Sheridan&#8217;s epic Western 1923 starring Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/1923-filming-texas-19985869.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">filmed throughout Texas <\/a>with parts of downtown San Antonio also being used for a backdrop.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you grew up in San Antonio in the late 1980s or later, chances are that sometime during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2107,92904,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-242936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-mysaentertainment","9":"tag-mysastafff","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","12":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}