Put Kevin Costner in some sort of period drama, and you’ve got guaranteed success on your hands. Bonus points if the Oscar recipient wears a hat and grabs a pistol from his belt. There’s just something about playing a good guy, man of the law, bandit, or outlaw that calls to the Hidden Figures alum. Over the last few years alone, he left his position as a gun-wielding man of power in Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone to set out with his latest Western-themed project through the crashing and burning film series Horizon: An American Saga, which seems to have been put on ice for the foreseeable future.
Even before bringing the fight to the great state of Montana as brutal and brash family patriarch John Dutton in Yellowstone, Costner’s call was always to the wild and Western. Turning the clock back, the actor has proven himself in the genre through projects like the multiple award-winning flick Dances with Wolves and Lawrence Kasdan’s Wyatt Earp, with the latter being a response to the much more popular and acclaimed George P. Cosmatos-helmed Tombstone. And, while he may prefer to stick to gun slingers with cowboy hats as his primary method of time traveling, a classic from the 1980s sees all the bits of an iconic Costner flick come together with a different theme at its core.
For those out there who have never seen Brian De Palma push a star-studded cast that includes Costner into the underbelly of organized crime, you needn’t look any further than Tubi on May 1, when the free streamer adds The Untouchables to its unbelievable lineup of content. In no way were the 1980s hurting for more gangster flicks, with other favorites such as Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas and De Palma’s other genre classic, Scarface, taking a huge bite out of the box office. Still, De Palma’s crime drama proves to stand out on its own as it delves into the twisted, deep, and oftentimes incredibly dark history of the titular taskforce saddled with the responsibility of bringing down Al Capone’s (Robert De Niro) crime syndicate.
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.
Who Else Stars in ‘The Untouchables’?
At the center of De Palma’s film is a cat-and-mouse game between Costner’s Eliot Ness and De Niro’s Al Capone. But these two incredibly talented actors aren’t the only ones who had a chance to step into history, with the Carrie helmer packing out his call sheet with other gargantuan names, including Sean Connery (The Rock), Charles Martin Smith (American Graffitti), and Andy García (The Godfather Part III) also joining the production.
Catch one of the best from Costner’s catalog when The Untouchables blasts onto Tubi on May 1.
