{"id":415630,"date":"2026-01-18T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415630\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:37:08","slug":"billy-bob-thornton-calls-reports-of-landman-departure-ai-gen-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415630\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Bob Thornton Calls Reports Of &#8216;Landman&#8217; Departure &#8220;AI-Gen Crap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Season 2 of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/landman\/\">Landman<\/a> comes to a close, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/billy-bob-thornton\">Billy Bob Thornton<\/a> assures fans they haven\u2019t seen the last of Tommy Norris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite his character\u2019s ousting from M-Tex Oil in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount-plus\/\">Paramount+<\/a> show\u2019s penultimate episode, the Oscar-winning actor recently declared that reports he\u2019s leaving the show ahead of Season 3 are nothing more than \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ai\" data-tag=\"ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a>-generated crap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s an AI report that Demi [Moore] and I are a couple now, and there\u2019s one that I\u2019m leaving the show,\u201d Thornton told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/01\/17\/billy-bob-thornton-leaving-landman\/88223981007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">USA Today<\/a>. \u201cThey have nothing to do with reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the Taylor Sheridan &amp; Christian Wallace show\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/landman-renewed-season-3-paramount-plus-taylor-sheridan-1236637624\/\">Season 3 renewal<\/a> last month, Thornton said, \u201cI\u2019ll be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith the Season 2 addition of Sam Elliott as Tommy\u2019s dad TL, Thornton is looking forward to the show\u2019s future. \u201cIt\u2019s been great working with Sam. And I love doing the show. I\u2019ll be here as long as it plays out. If it\u2019s five years, great. If it\u2019s six, I\u2019m there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LANDMAN_210_EM_0701_00419_RT_f.jpg\" alt=\"Landman\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"683\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSam Elliott and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/billy-bob-thornton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-bob-thornton\" data-tag=\"billy-bob-thornton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Bob Thornton<\/a> in \u2018Landman\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmerson Miller\/Paramount+<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThornton earned a Golden Globe nomination last year for his Season 1 portrayal of Tommy, a petroleum landman at M-Tex Oil who has to step up after a fatal incident at one of his company\u2019s rigs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Season 2 finale of Landman is now available to stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount-2\" data-tag=\"paramount-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Season 2 of Landman comes to a close, Billy Bob Thornton assures fans they haven\u2019t seen the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,12664,12670,4208,74],"class_list":["post-415630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-billy-bob-thornton","tag-landman","tag-paramount","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}