“You drive through these oilfields up there, it’s branded in your head pretty quick — it’s such a violation of the landscape,” said Sheridan, who wrote the screenplays for two acclaimed crime dramas, “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water” — the latter earning him an Academy Award nomination.
The bleak landscapes of Wyoming inspired his third screenplay, and the first that he has directed, “Wind River,” which opens in Utah theaters Friday.
“In my mind, when I’m writing it, I’m writing about very specific mountains in the Wind River range. As a director, to shoot in those mountains would be next to impossible,” Sheridan said.