That's when things get a bit trickier. You can't mimic the breathtaking landscapes of the West in Los Angeles, though there is a lot of open land in California.
But to achieve the right look and feel, you're going to need to leave the traditional behind and, though Longmire is set in Wyoming, it wasn't filmed there. Based on a series of best-selling books by Craig Johnson, Longmire is a modern Western that stars Australian actor Robert Taylor as Walt Longmire, the competent and dedicated sheriff of the fictional Absaroka County in northern Wyoming. While Robert Taylor may not have purposely channeled the intelligent resourcefulness of Indiana Jones, the quiet penetrating stare of the Man with No Name, or the coolness and quick action of Bullitt, they were obviously what the showrunners were looking for and those traits fit Robert Taylor like a pair of well-broken-in cowboy boots.
Robert Taylor has been kicking around Hollywood for years but his most popular and longest-running role is playing Sheriff Walt Longmire. However, the role of Walt Longmire almost went to another Taylor : Coach Taylor, or more specifically the actor who played him, Kyle Chandler. One can only imagine his Walt Longmire. While Chandler's early career included a country movie , the actor himself is a bit of a joker and might've brought some of the levity to the series that Longmire carries through the book series.
As he's matured, Chandler has also adopted a bit of the roguish tough cowboy look that would've fit the sheriff we all know.
Hunt Baldwin grew up in Chicago and worked in advertising in the Second City for many years. His parents moved to Wyoming and that bold move inspired him to leave his safe existence and move to Los Angeles to become a full-time writer. There he worked hard for many years before eventually fulfilling his dream, working with his writing partner John Coveny on series The Closer. Baldwin and Coveny are both represented by the same agent at talent agency CAA. It was the shared connection at CAA that birthed Longmire.
According to Coveny , they had talked to their agent over the years about wanting to do a modern western, Coveny mentioning that he had been a big fan of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Then one day their agent mentioned that CAA also happened to be representing this author named Craig Johnson who'd written a series of modern day westerns centering on a cowboy sheriff. According to Coveny, they read The Cold Dish and "about ten pages in we knew it was something we wanted to develop.
Baldwin and Coveny's experience working together on LAPD police procedural The Closer was a big help when they began developing their own new western police procedural, Longmire.
They still needed an executive producer with experience running a show, though. Luckily, while at The Closer , they met and worked closely with producer Greer Shephard. So they set up a meeting with her to discuss this new project. Greer is a TV veteran. She produced her first series in , Nothing Sacred.
She was the perfect person to shepherd two first-time creators through a decidedly unique police procedural. It's obviously cemented a relationship made in TV heaven. Shephard mentioned in a interview with The Hollywood Reporter that if she could add any writer to her staff, she "would clone Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny. The team split off after Longmire. Coveny was EP on the Fox series Deputy , which made it just one season.
Shephard continued to executive produce her The Closer spinoff, Major Crimes, for a year after Longmire wrapped up. Baldwin currently has no listed new projects. And while the book plots inspire the storylines, the series has created many new stories. For example, the first Longmire book, The Cold Dish , is somewhat condensed into the season 1 finale, "Unfinished Business.
In the books, Absaroka County only had five murders in 24 years, yet police procedurals tend to have lots of murders because it makes for very compelling television. In Longmire , there's a new murder almost every episode. In the books, Cady lives in Philly. Also in the books, Walt Longmire's wife dies of cancer, not murder.
His wife's murder in the TV series is a central plot point in the series so this is a huge difference. But one of the largest differences is Longmire himself. In the books, Walt Longmire is witty. Many would say he's wryly humorous. In fact, the books are often praised for their humor. The only comedy we see from TV Walt Longmire is when he makes social or technological faux pas, a humor generated from everybody else's reactions to his unwillingness to embrace the modern world.
In the few moments when Walt says something funny, he doesn't seem to realize it. There are many peculiarities that make Longmire and its eponymous protagonist so memorable. The fact Walt doesn't have a cellphone, nor does he ever use gloves at crime scenes, are just two.
But one of the most well-noted ticks is Walt Longmire's devotion to Rainier beer. Rainier is a cheap beer that isn't found all over, comparable in price to PBR. In fact, it's currently owned by Pabst Brewing Company. In an interview with the Casper Star Tribune , Johnson explains he was surprised by how Longmire has impacted Rainier beer.
Johnson also charges one very inexpensive and unique honorarium for speaking at any and all Wyoming libraries — a six-pack of Rainier. Johnson probably likes Rainier given his proclivity for requesting it so the connection may end there. So perhaps that Longmire-Rainier connection may have influenced Johnson's naming of his most famous sheriff.
There are no confirmed statements that say Walt's last name was inspired by his favorite beer. So this might just be another mystery for Walt Longmire. When it comes to tying together supposed coincidences to suss out the truth, there's nobody better. The Untold Truth Of Longmire. Being very emblematic of Wyoming, Johnson often draws inspiration for Longmire from local newspapers as well as traveling across the state doing research.
Meet the actors for an autograph session, take part in a book writing seminar or enjoy the commentary, performed by Johnson and the actors, at the charity softball game. Want more Wyoming travel recommendations to help you experience the true Walt Longmire lifestyle? By Travel Wyoming. Sponsored Content.
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