Netflix's new epic period Western series American Primeval is the perfect example of why a Red Dead Redemption film or TV adaptation needs to happen.

His dad, Kent Bateman, was a film and TV director, and as the apple does not fall far from the tree, Jason Bateman himself has made a name for himself as a talented actor and director. Adding to it is his wife,

Berg also responds to criticisms of the representation of Mormon church leader Brigham Young and the line he wouldn’t cross when it came to violence depicted in the events surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.

In 2004, director Peter Berg recruited Texan post-rock greats Explosions In The Sky to score his cinematic adaptation of the book Friday Night Lights. When Friday Night Lights became a (great) TV series,

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Netflix’s new historical drama “American Primeval” is currently the No. 1 series on the site. But how much of the show and its characters are based on the 1857 Utah War?

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Taylor Kitsch stars on Netflix's "American Primeval," playing a dangerous man in the Old West. It's a major departure from "Friday Night Lights."

Jim Bridger, played by Shea Whigham, was a real life pioneer who built the town of Fort Bridger, which features in the series and was a real town. Brigham Young, played by Kim Coates, was also a real life figure. He was the head of the Mormon church at the time and had his own army known as the Nauvoo Legion.

A month after Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone wrapped its five-season run on Paramount Network, viewers clamoring for a new televised Western have found their answer on Netflix. American Primeval, a new limited series that thrusts audiences into the brutal and volatile world of the American West,