In the last 10 years, Miles Teller has quietly become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and it extends well beyond his blockbuster role in one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, Top Gun: Maverick. Teller can be seen starring in one of the biggest box office hits of 2026 with Michael, the new biopic that just arrived on digital after falling short of $1 billion globally. Teller took a three-year hiatus from acting between 2022 and 2025 before he returned to the screen for The Gorge, the Apple TV sci-fi thriller co-starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The film was denied a run in theaters, but it was met with widespread acclaim from critics and audiences, earning a Best TV Movie nod at the Emmys and shattering records to become one of Apple TV’s most-watched movies ever.
Like any star of his stature, though, Teller is always on the hunt for new projects. News broke yesterday afternoon that he’s been tapped to star in an epic new neo-Western crime thriller, Copperhead, which is expected to begin production later this summer in August. The film is being directed by John Swab, and it was written by Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott — Feehan recently wrote the Taylor Sheridan-produced Yellowstone spin-off, Dutton Ranch, which is now streaming on Paramount Plus. Plot specifics about Copperhead are still being kept under wraps at this time, but the film is confirmed to follow a veteran detective who teams up with a young agent to unravel an internal conspiracy in West Texas. Copperhead is shaping up to be the perfect mash-up of Sicario and Training Day, and with Teller and Feehan involved, fans are surely in for a treat.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Is Miles Teller Returning for ‘Top Gun 3’?
Miles Teller has confirmed that he will return and reprise his role as Rooster in Top Gun 3. However, at the time of writing in June 2026, it’s entirely unclear when the film will begin shooting, or much less when it will be released. Tom Cruise and other Top Gun stars like Glen Powell are booked and busy right now, which will certainly inhibit the ability to get everyone together for what will likely be a lengthy shoot. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has also cast doubt that the film is anywhere near the start of production, meaning it could be 2030 or possibly beyond before it hits theaters.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on Copperhead and coverage of Teller’s future projects.
