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		<title>Jeffree Star Makeup Lands at Dollar Tree: See What Shoppers Found</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dollar Tree shoppers know the thrill of finding a beauty bargain&#8212;but spotting a name associated with high-end makeup at the discount retailer is another story. That&#8217;s exactly what has shoppers doing a double take: Products from beauty mogul and YouTube star Jeffree Star&#8217;s makeup line have recently appeared on Dollar Tree shelves. Known for his [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Known for his bold makeup looks and colorful, high-pigment cosmetics, Star built a massive following online before launching Jeffree Star Cosmetics in 2014. Now, some of his products are turning up at Dollar Tree for just a few dollars, and beauty fans naturally have questions: Are they authentic? Why are they at Dollar Tree? And, most importantly, are they worth buying?</p>
<p>Star recently addressed the products himself, so here&rsquo;s what to know about the unexpected beauty finds&mdash;and the other makeup buys worth grabbing on your next Dollar Tree run.</p><body><div id="gist-answers-widget" class="gist-answers-widget">
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<h2>Jeffree Star makeup in Dollar Tree</h2>
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<p class="isSelectedEnd">The rumors are true: Select Jeffree Star makeup is showing up at Dollar Tree&mdash;but there&rsquo;s a little catch. Shoppers have noticed the packaging looks different from what they&rsquo;d find on the Jeffree Star Cosmetics website. Star recently addressed the buzz on social media, explaining that excess inventory was sold through a deal that allowed the single eyeshadows to be repackaged for Dollar Tree.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">So, is the makeup actually Jeffree Star? According to Star, yes. The back of the Dollar Tree packaging explains that the original product was repackaged by Brand Central Marketing, which is &ldquo;not affiliated with Jeffree Star Cosmetics.&rdquo; In other words, the eyeshadow inside is Jeffree Star Cosmetics, but the Dollar Tree packaging isn&rsquo;t official brand packaging.</p>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">The find: Jeffree Star Cosmetics Single Palette Eyeshadows, available in a rainbow of shades and praised by fans for their rich pigmentation.</p>
<p>And here&rsquo;s the funny part: While Jeffree Star Cosmetics typically sells the shadows in 14 shades for $9.99 each, Star recently <a href="https://jeffreestarcosmetics.com/collections/eyeshadow-palettes/products/artistry-singles1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his own prices on the product</a> to just $1.00. Dollar Tree&rsquo;s selection is random and typically costs about $1.25&mdash;so, for now, the discount store isn&rsquo;t actually the cheapest place to snag one.</p>
<h2>Other viral Dollar Tree makeup finds</h2>
<h3>Ioni makeup products</h3>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.dollartree.com/ioni-camoflauge-liquid-concealer-assorted-shades-1-ct/413404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ioni Camouflage Liquid Concealer</a> comes highly recommended by Dollar Tree shoppers, who claim it is a thin, creamy formula that blends seamlessly. The concealer is budget-friendly at $1.25 and available in three different shades to match your skin tone, including Cool Light, Neutral Light- Medium and Neutral Medium-Dark.</p>
<p>One review for the concealer reads, &ldquo;I got the neutral light medium and it&rsquo;s a perfect match for me! It&rsquo;s better than my Tarte or Maybelline concealers&hellip;You can barely tell i have anything on my face so it works perfect for my no makeup makeup look!&rdquo;</p>
<p>Another Ioni product that Dollar Tree shoppers praise is the Ioni Blush Sticks. With shades such as <span class="iNqyIf" data-sfc-cp="" data-sfc-root="ep" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'>Warm Rose<!--TgQPHd|||[[&quot;SHOPPING_PRODUCT&quot;,2,&quot;FAILED_OR_SKIPPED&quot;,&quot;EhsiFKIBEUZBSUxFRF9PUl9TS0lQUEVEkgECnAE&quot;,&quot;Ioni Warm Rose Blush Stick / Blush Butter Balm Dollar Tree&quot;,&quot;&quot;,&quot;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&quot;,null,0,null,[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,1],0,0,null,null,0,0,[],&quot;&quot;,0,0],&quot;0GK1asSnHuz_ptQPks2WwQY_4&quot;]--><!--TgQPHd|||[]--><!--TgQPHd|||[]--></span><!--TgQPHd|||[]--> and <span class="iNqyIf" data-sfc-cp="" data-sfc-root="ep" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'>Soft Coral, this blush product </span>gives your look a rich, glowing satin finish without disrupting any other makeup.</p>
<h3>Marie Claire face serum</h3>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.dollartree.com/marie-claire-paris-face-serum-primer-101-oz/427007" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marie Claire Paris Face Serum Primer</a> is highly recommended by shoppers to use on mature skin. The $1.25 product is perfect to use beneath your other makeup for a smooth, consistent finish. The serum works well on all skin types and is a budget-friendly option.</p>
<p>One review reads, &ldquo;Best primer I&rsquo;ve used for mature skin! Takes a little squeezing to get it to the roller, but the roller moving smoothly. No gripping on your face. Dries quickly and not tacky. Let it sit for a few before doing foundation. Chef&rsquo;s kiss, flawless!</p>
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<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?><html><body><p>For a majority of <a href="https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/celebrities/why-dolly-parton-meant-so-much-to-womans-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dolly Parton</a>&lsquo;s life and career, the legendary country singer donned her signature blonde wig that sat high on her head. Although she wore her natural hair early on in her career, she eventually decided that wigs were her signature look.</p>
<p>&ldquo;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/08/25/dolly-parton-wigs-history/91462980007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I used to try to keep my own hair</a> teased as big as I like it, and having the bleach and all of that, it just broke off,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I thought, &lsquo;Why am I going through all that? Why don&rsquo;t I just wear wigs? That way, I never have a bad hair day! I have a big hair day, but not a&nbsp;bad&nbsp;hair day.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But Dolly Parton wasn&rsquo;t stingy about sharing her wigs with others and there was one moment that a&nbsp;<em>Little House on the Prairie</em> star was in need of a new &lsquo;do. Find out who she offered her blonde locks up to!</p><body><div id="gist-answers-widget" class="gist-answers-widget">
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<h2>Which &lsquo;Little House&rsquo; star borrowed the wig?</h2>
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<p>Loyal viewers of <em>Little House on the Prairie</em> will remember Eva Beadle, the heartwarming schoolteacher who had an impact on Laura and Mary Ingalls. Portrayed by Charlotte Stewart, Ms. Beadle was a fan-favorite character who remained on the series from Season 1 until Season 4.</p>
<p>But behind-the-scenes, Stewart was struggling with a drug and alcohol addiction, and the actress eventually decided she needed to seek help. But instead of heading to rehabilitation center, Stewart decided to check into a health spa, which combines clinical rehab therapies with wellness and spa amenities.</p>

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<p>&ldquo;I went to a health spa in the South Bay to try to pull things together,&rdquo; Stewart said. &ldquo;The place offered transformation through meditation and a vegetarian diet&mdash;and of course drugs and alcohol were not on the menu.&rdquo; But she eventually moved onto another health spa where none other than Dolly Parton was staying.</p>
<p>This new health spa was located just outside of San Diego and during her time there, she and the other guests took part in a sketch.</p>
<p>&ldquo;<a href="https://classiccountrymusic.com/little-house-on-the-prairie-actress-once-borrowed-dolly-partons-wig/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The staff asked us all to do a skit</a>,&rdquo; Stewart shared about her time there. &ldquo;So I asked Dolly Parton, the country singer, who was also staying there at the time, if I could borrow her wig. She was more than happy to offer one up&mdash;a large blonde thing&mdash;and I did a skit in which I played Holly Spartan.&rdquo;</p>
<h2>Others who have borrowed Dolly&rsquo;s wig</h2>
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<p>Charlotte Stewart wasn&rsquo;t the only person that Dolly has let borrow one of her wigs. During an episode of&nbsp;<em>The Tonight Show</em>, Parton asked Jimmy Fallon to try on one of her wigs.</p>
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<p>Some are already made, others remain in development. But together they suggest television&rsquo;s next great science-fiction worlds may already be sitting on our bookshelves.</p>
<h2><b>&lsquo;Blade Runner 2099&rsquo; &mdash; based on &lsquo;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&rsquo; (1968)</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_636547" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-636547" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-636547 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg" alt="'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'" width="1200" height="1800" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=110%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 110w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 683w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=33%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 33w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=267%2C400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 267w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=333%2C500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 333w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=400%2C600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=115%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 115w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=155%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 155w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=236%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 236w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=317%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 317w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=357%2C536&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 357w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electrip-Sheep.jpg?resize=720%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 720w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-636547 portrait-orientation">&lsquo;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&rsquo;</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-636547 portrait-orientation">Gollancz</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Author:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Philip K. Dick</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>Publisher:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Doubleday</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>What it&rsquo;s about: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a post-apocalyptic future, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is assigned to hunt down and &ldquo;retire&rdquo; escaped androids that are virtually indistinguishable from human beings. What begins as a futuristic detective story becomes Philip K. Dick&rsquo;s exploration of empathy, memory, identity and the increasingly difficult question of what actually makes someone human.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ridley Scott&rsquo;s 1982 </span><a href="https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/movies/rare-blade-runner-photos-show-how-its-iconic-look-was-created" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blade Runner</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> substantially reinvented Dick&rsquo;s novel while retaining Deckard, the escaped artificial humans and many of its central philosophical questions. That film subsequently spawned </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blade Runner 2049</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and now </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blade Runner 2099</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><b>TV Adaptation: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rather than another adaptation of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blade Runner 2099</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> continues the screen universe inspired by it. The eight-episode Prime Video limited series is set 50 years after </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blade Runner 2049</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and stars Michelle Yeoh as Olwen, a replicant approaching the end of her life, and Hunter Schafer as Cora.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Silka Luisa serves as showrunner, Jonathan van Tulleken directs the opening episodes and Ridley Scott executive produces. All eight episodes are scheduled to premiere November 25, 2026.</span></p>
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<p><b>Silka Luisa (creator/showrunner) says: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;It was always considered as a limited series. Part of making the transition from film to TV is a really big jump for something that&rsquo;s as cinematic as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blade Runner</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. And so, in that sense, it was really important to us that we told a story that, in a way, is like a movie &mdash; in the sense that there&rsquo;s a beginning, there&rsquo;s a middle and there&rsquo;s an end. We went into it with Alcon, with all of our producing partners, knowing, okay, we really want to tell a complete story. And eight episodes &mdash; I mean, eight&rsquo;s my lucky number. That&rsquo;s the number I would have picked &mdash; but it felt like the right amount for the story we were planning on telling.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re thinking about money while you&rsquo;re just trying to imagine the world, it&rsquo;s too debilitating. The process of trying to invent the story and come up with the most exciting way to tell the story is the first step. Then there&rsquo;s a whole process afterwards where they figure out what that actually costs. And then, once you know the story you want to tell, you can go in and be like, &lsquo;Okay, I can take this part out. I can move these pieces around,&rsquo; without damaging the most important aspects that you want to protect.&rdquo;</span></p>
<h2><b>&lsquo;Neuromancer&rsquo; (1984)</b></h2>
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<p><b>Author:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> William Gibson</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>Publisher:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Ace Books</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>What it&rsquo;s about: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Case was once a gifted computer hacker capable of entering cyberspace until former employers damaged his nervous system and took that ability away from him. He&rsquo;s offered a chance to regain it in return for participating in an extraordinarily dangerous operation. Working alongside augmented mercenary Molly Millions, Case is pulled into a conspiracy involving enormously powerful artificial intelligences.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gibson&rsquo;s novel became one of the foundational works of cyberpunk, popularized the term &ldquo;cyberspace,&rdquo; and envisioned aspects of our relationship with computers and virtual worlds years before the World Wide Web existed.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_636538" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-636538" style="width: 3888px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-636538" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg" alt="Groundbreaking American novelist William Gibson, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his international bestseller entitled Neuromancer." width="3888" height="2592" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 3888w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=248%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 248w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;quality=97&amp;strip=all 300w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;quality=76&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1536w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2048w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=50%2C33&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 50w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;quality=81&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;quality=68&amp;strip=all 600w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=270%2C180&amp;quality=97&amp;strip=all 270w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=258%2C172&amp;quality=97&amp;strip=all 258w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=350%2C233&amp;quality=81&amp;strip=all 350w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=531%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 531w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=713%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 713w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=804%2C536&amp;quality=76&amp;strip=all 804w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-583657998.jpg?resize=1620%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1620w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner"><span class="caption wp-caption-636538">Groundbreaking American novelist William Gibson, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his international bestseller entitled Neuromancer.</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-636538">Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>TV Adaptation: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apple TV has produced a 10-episode adaptation starring Callum Turner as Case and Briana Middleton as Molly, alongside Mark Strong as Armitage and Peter Sarsgaard as John Ashpool. Graham Roland is showrunner, JD Dillard directs the first three episodes and Gibson is among the executive producers. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neuromancer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> premieres January 22, 2027, with its first two episodes, followed by weekly episodes through March 19.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_636540" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-636540" style="width: 2568px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-636540 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg" alt="Graham Roland attends their panel for the upcoming Apple TV sci-fi drama series &ldquo;Neuromancer&rdquo; in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con at San Diego Convention Center on July 25, 2026 in San Diego, California." width="2568" height="3852" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 2568w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=110%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 110w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 683w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1365w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=33%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 33w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=267%2C400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 267w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=333%2C500&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 333w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=400%2C600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=115%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 115w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=155%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 155w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=236%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 236w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=317%2C475&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 317w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=357%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 357w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287651773.jpg?resize=720%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 720w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-636540 portrait-orientation">Graham Roland attends their panel for the upcoming Apple TV sci-fi drama series &ldquo;Neuromancer&rdquo; in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con at San Diego Convention Center on July 25, 2026 in San Diego, California.</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-636540 portrait-orientation">Eric Charbonneau/Apple TV via Getty Images</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Showrunner Graham Roland says: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;I think 42 years ago, this book felt like pure science fiction. And Gibson famously coined the term cyberspace to describe a digital world where people in the book go to escape and to interact with. And he did all this before the internet existed. He wrote about the collision of artificial intelligence and human intelligence before artificial intelligence existed. And now we&rsquo;re living in a world 42 years later where these things are part of all of our everyday lives. And so it felt like an appropriate time for us to revisit the text and to put it in a new light now that these things are actually here.&rdquo;</span><b><br>
</b></p>
<h2><b>&lsquo;The Captive&rsquo;s War&rsquo;&mdash; beginning with </b><b><i>The Mercy of Gods</i></b><b> (2024)</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_636551" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-636551" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-636551 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg" alt="'The Captive's War'" width="1200" height="1850" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=107%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 107w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 195w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=768%2C1184&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=664%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 664w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=996%2C1536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 996w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=32%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 32w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=259%2C400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 259w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=324%2C500&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 324w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=389%2C600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 389w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=112%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 112w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=151%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 151w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=230%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 230w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=308%2C475&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 308w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=348%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 348w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Captives-War.jpg?resize=701%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 701w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-636551 portrait-orientation">&lsquo;The Captive&rsquo;s War&rsquo;</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-636551 portrait-orientation">Orbit</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Author:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> James S.A. Corey (pen name for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>Publisher:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Orbit</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>What it&rsquo;s about: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Humanity discovers that it occupies a very small place in the universe when the enormously powerful Carryx empire conquers the human world of Anjiin. Research scientist Dafyd Alkhor and a group of fellow survivors are taken prisoner and transported into a vast imperial system populated by other conquered species. Captives must demonstrate their usefulness to the Carryx or face extinction. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story launches an epic about humanity attempting to survive within &mdash; and potentially resist &mdash; an alien civilization of almost unimaginable size and power.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_636542" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-636542" style="width: 7731px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-636542" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg" alt="Naren Shankar, showrunner of 'The Captive's War' " width="7731" height="5287" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 7731w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=241%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 241w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;quality=83&amp;strip=all 300w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=768%2C525&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=1024%2C700&amp;quality=76&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=1536%2C1050&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1536w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=2048%2C1401&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2048w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=50%2C34&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 50w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=400%2C274&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=500%2C342&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=600%2C410&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=252%2C172&amp;quality=83&amp;strip=all 252w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=341%2C233&amp;quality=83&amp;strip=all 341w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=518%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 518w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=695%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 695w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=784%2C536&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 784w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1427111329.jpg?resize=1579%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1579w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner"><span class="caption wp-caption-636542">Naren Shankar, showrunner of &lsquo;The Captive&rsquo;s War&rsquo;</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-636542">David Livingston/Getty Images)</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>TV Adaptation: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abraham and Franck have reunited with </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Expanse</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> showrunner Naren Shankar and director Breck Eisner through their company Expanding Universe. A television adaptation of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Captive&rsquo;s War</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is in development with Amazon MGM Studios. Shankar is attached as showrunner, Eisner as director, and Abraham, Franck and Shankar are involved in writing. This is in development and has not yet received a series order, so we need to make that distinction explicit.</span></p>
<p><b>Daniel Abraham says: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Captive&rsquo;s War </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is kind of the other side of space opera from </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Expanse</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Expanse </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is Alfred Bester and Larry Niven and Arthur [C.] Clarke, and this grounded science fiction that really kind of considers that part of a history. But there&rsquo;s a whole different realm of science fiction that is </span><a href="https://winteriscoming.net/sci-fi-tv-shows/dune/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dune</span></i></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Left Hand of Darkness </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and all of these things that are very far future, very broad canvases. And we&rsquo;ve moved over there to do this.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;Ty Franck pitched, &lsquo;What if you re-envisioned the biblical Book of Daniel as epic science fiction, [where] you have this person who is taken by the great empire the way that the slaves were taken to Babylon, and incorporated into the mechanisms of empire?&rsquo; And how you deal with being the functionary of your oppressor and also maintaining yourself and maintaining your view and maintaining your struggle against oppression in that context. I thought, &lsquo;Yeah, that sounds awesome. We should do that.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></p>
<h2><b>&lsquo;Skyward&rsquo; (2018)</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_636552" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-636552" style="width: 1387px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-636552 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg" alt="'Skyward' Box Set" width="1387" height="1500" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 1387w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=153%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 153w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=277%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 277w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=768%2C831&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=947%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 947w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=46%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 46w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=370%2C400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 370w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=462%2C500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 462w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=555%2C600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 555w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=159%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 159w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=215%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 215w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=327%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 327w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=439%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 439w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=496%2C536&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 496w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Skyward-Box-Set.jpg?resize=999%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 999w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-636552 portrait-orientation">&lsquo;Skyward&rsquo; Box Set</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-636552 portrait-orientation">Delacorte Press</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Author:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Brandon Sanderson</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>Publisher:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Delacorte Press</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>What it&rsquo;s about: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spensa Nightshade desperately wants to become a fighter pilot defending humanity&rsquo;s last refuge on the planet Detritus from relentless alien attacks. There&rsquo;s one major obstacle beyond simply getting into flight school: Spensa&rsquo;s father was a pilot branded a coward after apparently abandoning his squadron during battle. She enters flight training determined both to prove herself and redeem her family&rsquo;s reputation. What Spensa eventually discovers raises much larger questions about her father, humanity&rsquo;s enemy and why humans are trapped on Detritus in the first place.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_624980" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-624980" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-624980" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg" alt="Brandon Sanderson in 2012" width="1200" height="675" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=293%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 293w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=50%2C28&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 50w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=305%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 305w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=415%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 415w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=630%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 630w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=845%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 845w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brandon-Sanderson-in-2012.jpg?resize=953%2C536&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 953w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner"><span class="caption wp-caption-624980">Brandon Sanderson in 2012</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-624980">Brandon Sanderson</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>TV Adaptation: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tomorrow Studios is developing </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skyward</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a television series. Sanderson is taking an unusually hands-on role, co-writing the pilot with Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, whose credits include </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> All three are executive producers. At present, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skyward</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> does not have a network or streaming home and has not received a series order. The pilot is being developed with the intention of taking the project to buyers.</span></p>
<p><b>Janci Patterson (co-writer of the </b><b><i>Blightfall </i></b><b>spin-off from </b><b><i>Skyward</i></b><b>): </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skyward </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is the &lsquo;boy and his dragon&rsquo; trope, except it&rsquo;s a girl with her spaceship, which is how Brandon originally pitched it to me back before he wrote it. I thought that was brilliant. You&rsquo;ve got this girl and her spaceship, and they&rsquo;re being attacked by aliens. They&rsquo;re stuck on this planet and don&rsquo;t really know why they&rsquo;re being attacked. Then the story expands into these humans learning about alien cultures and having adventures on new planets.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<h2><b>&lsquo;Consider Phlebas&rsquo; (1987)</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_636576" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-636576" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-636576 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg" alt="'Consider Phelbas'" width="1200" height="1804" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=110%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 110w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=768%2C1155&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 681w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=1022%2C1536&amp;quality=71&amp;strip=all 1022w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=33%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 33w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=266%2C400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 266w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=333%2C500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 333w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=399%2C600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 399w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=114%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 114w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=155%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 155w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=235%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 235w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=316%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 316w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=357%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 357w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Consider-Phlebas.jpg?resize=718%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 718w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-636576 portrait-orientation">&lsquo;Consider Phelbas&rsquo;</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-636576 portrait-orientation">Orbit</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Author:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Iain M. Banks</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>Publisher:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Macmillan</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>What it&rsquo;s about: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first published novel in Banks&rsquo; Culture series takes place against a galactic war between two radically different civilizations. The Culture is an enormously advanced post-scarcity society in which biological beings live alongside immensely powerful artificial intelligences called Minds. Its opponent, the Idiran Empire, is an expansionist civilization driven by religious belief. Shape-shifting mercenary Bora Horza Gobuchul fights on the Idiran side and is sent to retrieve a Culture Mind stranded on a forbidden planet. The unusual twist is that Banks introduces his seemingly utopian Culture largely through the eyes of someone who distrusts it&mdash;particularly its reliance on artificial intelligence.</span></p>
<p><b>TV Adaptation: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amazon MGM Studios is developing a new television adaptation written and executive produced by Charles Yu, creator of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interior Chinatown</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Chlo&eacute; Zhao is executive producing through Book of Shadows, alongside Plan B&rsquo;s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner and Banks&rsquo; widow, Adele Banks. This is Amazon&rsquo;s second attempt to adapt </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Consider Phlebas</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. An earlier version announced in 2018 with Dennis Kelly attached was abandoned in 2020. The current project is an entirely new attempt. It remains in development without a series order, announced cast or premiere date.</span></p>
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<p><b>Iain Banks (who died in 2013) says: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Partly it [the creation of the Culture] was in reaction to a lot of the SF I was reading at the time. The British stuff mostly seemed a bit miserablist and the US&rsquo;s too right wing. I wanted SF that combined what I regarded as the best of both: the thoughtfulness and sense of proportion of the UK&rsquo;s and the energy and optimism of the US brand.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;The way the Culture came about initially was as&mdash;I thought at the time&mdash;a single-use solution to a particular problem. I was getting ready to write </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use of Weapons</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and I knew that Zakalwe was this sort of ultimate warrior guy, just very martially able, but I wanted him to be on the side of the good guys somehow. Squaring that circle was the problem, so I came up with the idea of the Culture as his ultimate employers: a society basically on the side of the angels but willing to use people like Zakalwe (utopia spawning few warriors, as the later-written poem says) to do its dirty but justified work. The &lsquo;justified&rsquo; bit always having something to do with statistics; from the beginning the Culture had to be able to prove&mdash;rather than simply assert&mdash;that it was generally doing the right thing, even when it interfered without permission in other societies. That was it, initially, but then the Culture proved to be the nucleus around which all my other until then rather nebulous ideas started to cluster and take shape, and it just developed&mdash;naturally, it felt&mdash;by itself, from there.&rdquo;</span></p>
<h2><b>&lsquo;Dungeon Crawler Carl&rsquo; (2020)</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_632906" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-632906" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-632906 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg" alt="Dungeon Crawler Carl 1" width="1200" height="1919" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=103%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 103w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 188w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1228&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=640%2C1024&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 640w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=961%2C1536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 961w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=31%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 31w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=250%2C400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 250w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=313%2C500&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 313w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=375%2C600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 375w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=108%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 108w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=146%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 146w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=221%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 221w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=297%2C475&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 297w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=335%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 335w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dungeon-Crawler-Carl-1.jpg?resize=675%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 675w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-632906 portrait-orientation">Dungeon Crawler Carl 1</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-632906 portrait-orientation">Ace Books</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Author:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Matt Dinniman</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>Publisher:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Originally self-published; later print editions published by Ace</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><b>What it&rsquo;s about: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carl is outside in his underwear with his ex-girlfriend&rsquo;s prize-winning Persian cat, Princess Donut, when aliens effectively demolish human civilization. The survivors are offered an opportunity to enter an enormous underground dungeon constructed beneath the remains of Earth. There&rsquo;s a catch: the entire thing is an intergalactic reality television program. Carl and Donut become contestants in an increasingly lethal series of dungeon levels filled with monsters, traps, other survivors and an AI with a decidedly unusual personality &mdash; all while trying to build an audience among the billions of aliens watching them. The series combines science fiction, apocalyptic adventure, LitRPG, satire and extremely dark comedy.</span></p>
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<p><b>TV Adaptation: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peacock has officially greenlit a live-action </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dungeon Crawler Carl</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> television series. Chris Yost, whose credits include </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thor: Ragnarok</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mandalorian</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, is writing and executive producing. Seth MacFarlane&rsquo;s Fuzzy Door is producing with Universal Content Productions/Universal Studio Group. Unlike several projects on this list, therefore, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dungeon Crawler Carl</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has moved beyond merely having its rights optioned or a pilot being developed.</span></p>
<p><b>Matt Dinniman says: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;This book </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Dungeon Crawler</span></i> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carl</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">) has always been kind of difficult to elevator pitch, but here&rsquo;s my best one. Aliens come and destroy the world, killing most of the population in a single instant. Amongst the survivors are a man, Carl, and his ex-girfriend&rsquo;s cat, Princess Donut. The aliens have turned the planet into the set of the galaxy&rsquo;s highest-rated reality game show, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dungeon Crawler World</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Carl and Donut enter the dungeon, become contestants on the show, and are forced to fight for their lives while a galaxy of viewers watch their progress. Donut the cat quickly 1) Learns the Magic Missile spell and 2) Becomes a fan favorite.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;I never intended for this to be a funny story, but the concept along with some of the characters&mdash;specifically Princess Donut (who is given sapience and the ability to talk in an early chapter)&mdash;allows for some really bizarre and ultimately funny scenarios. I don&rsquo;t go out of my way to say &lsquo;Okay, that scene was pretty dark. Let&rsquo;s make a funny scene now.&rsquo; Instead, I try to rely on the characters themselves to get from point A to B, and humor is oftentimes a major coping mechanism. Plus, they are on a game show. The bad guys running the whole thing are also using their own brand of sadistic humor to keep the audience entertained.&rdquo; (</span><a href="https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/an-interview-with-matt-dinniman/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grim Dark Magazine</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span></p>

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			Crosby Fitzgerald admits she never saw herself as Caroline &ldquo;Ma&rdquo; Ingalls, yet when she auditioned for the new adaptation of Little House on the Prairie, she realized there was an opportunity to explore the woman behind the beloved matriarch. Rather than simply recreating an iconic television character, Fitzgerald wanted to portray Caroline as a complex [&hellip;]		</div>
	
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where was &lsquo;Little House&rsquo; filmed?</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The recent adaptation of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Little House on the Prairie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was filmed far away from where the original series was and from where Laura and her family actually lived. The Netflix series was set in the Canadian province of Manitoba, with a majority of the filming taking place in Cooks Creek and Winnipeg.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cooks Creek housed the town of Independence, Kansas, where the Ingalls traveled to, which consisted of 29 buildings and the family&rsquo;s log cabin. Winnipeg was where the cast and crew filmed many of their exterior prairie scenes, as well as the moments that took place in the winter.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Historical accuracy extended all the way to how the buildings were constructed. The Ingalls family&rsquo;s log cabin alone required 96,000 pounds of timber, with the production team using wooden pegs rather than modern nails to assemble it&mdash;recreating the construction methods settlers would have relied on in the 1800s.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_LSAp-hlXc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We paid particular attention</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to historic accuracy and detail,&rdquo; set decorator James V. Kent shared. &ldquo;I went out of my way to purchase really authentic American antiques. I hired a local blacksmith to make hooks and pieces that you can actually hammer into the logs. I mean, that&rsquo;s the kind of detail we went into on this show.&rdquo;</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is was like filming in Winnipeg</span></h2>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Little House </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">wasn&rsquo;t filmed on a set but rather in Manitoba&rsquo;s open lands, an area the cast and crew loved. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Woman&rsquo;s World</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/tv-shows/little-house-on-the-prairie-rebecca-amzallag-talks-new-character" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> previously spoke with Rebeca Amzallag</a>, who starred as Lacey Aubert on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Little House</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, about what it was like to film in Winnipeg.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;I love Winnipeg,&rdquo; Amzallag shared. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve shot in Winnipeg a few other times and the people are so friendly. It is not a surprise to me that more and more shows and movies are shooting there&hellip; the food is amazing in Winnipeg. The people are really sweet.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amzallag added, &ldquo;Because of the fires that were occurring all around, the sky was always a little bit smoky and it made for such a beautiful landscape shot. You have this pink light because of the smoke. This really challenging time for Canadians is commemorated on the show by the beautiful landscape.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Give Netflix&rsquo;s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Little House on the Prairie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a rewatch and be sure to stay tuned for Season 2.</span></p>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">James Earl Jones</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Legendary actor James Earl Jones served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. After being commissioned as an officer in mid-1953, he completed the Infantry Officers Basic Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. He went on to attend the prestigious Ranger School and played a key role in establishing a cold weather training command near Leadville, Colorado. Jones was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant. The beloved star passed away at age 93 on September 9, 2024.</span></p>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jimi Hendrix</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll guitarist Jimi Hendrix enlisted in the Army in 1961 and served for one year before switching back to his guitar. Hendrix tragically died in September 1970 from accidental asphyxiation while under the influence of barbiturates. He was just 27, and is still considered to be one of the best musicians of all time.</span></p><body><div id="gist-answers-widget" class="gist-answers-widget">
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Morgan Freeman</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before becoming one of Hollywood&rsquo;s most recognizable voices, Morgan Freeman had dreams of flying. In 1955, he was so passionate about aviation that he turned down a drama scholarship to enlist in the U.S. Air Force. Freeman served for four years before leaving the military in 1959 to pursue acting. Freeman is currently 89 years old and has won one Oscar </span>for <em>Million Dollar Baby</em>.</p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ice-T (Tracy Marrow)</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ice-T (born Tracy Marrow) served in the U.S. Army for four years in the late 1970s. He was mainly stationed in Hawaii and was honorably discharged in December 1979, having attained the rank of Private First Class.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s put it like this: I don&rsquo;t know if I would voluntarily go back into the military, but I&rsquo;m glad I did,&rdquo; Ice-T </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgkdmIwDAo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">B High Atl</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2023. &ldquo;It gave me a lot of [experience learning] how to create a plan, you know? I learned how to do routines, I learned how to problem solve.&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ice-T is currently 68 years old and starring in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Law &amp; Order: SVU</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. He&rsquo;s been married to Coco Austin since 2002 and they have one child together.</span></p>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sidney Poitier</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Years before winning an Oscar for </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lilies of the Field</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Sidney Poitier served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was on active duty from 1943 to 1944 and worked as a physiotherapist in a hospital after initially failing the literacy requirements for enlistment. He joined to try and escape being homeless. Following his time in the service, Poitier went on to become the first African-American to be nominated for and eventually win Best Actor at the Oscars for </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lilies of the Field.</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">He passed away in January 2022 at age 94.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shaggy (Orville Richard Burrell)&nbsp;</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most people know Shaggy (born Orville Richard Burrell) as the voice behind the hit song &ldquo;It Wasn&rsquo;t Me,&rdquo; but before he was topping the charts, he served his country with honor. From 1988 to 1992, Shaggy was a field artillery cannon crewman in the U.S. Marine Corps. During his service, he was deployed to the Middle East for Operation Desert Storm, proving himself to be not just a talented musician, but a true American hero.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;I got this voice by mocking drill instructors in the military,&rdquo; Shaggy said in 2024, per </span><a href="https://www.military.com/off-duty/music/2024/03/12/rapper-shaggy-got-his-distinctive-voice-making-fun-of-his-marine-corps-drill-instructors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Military.com.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &ldquo;Cause in the Marines, the drill instructors would go, &lsquo;Yeah, boy, drop and give it 20; let&rsquo;s go, boy&rsquo; and I would mock him as a form of joking because it motivated, you know, your platoon.&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;I just sang that song in that voice because it sounded cool, and all of a sudden, &lsquo;Oh Carolina&rsquo; blew up, and I&rsquo;m faced with this situation that I&rsquo;m going to have to sing every song like that,&rdquo; he added.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shaggy is now 57 years old and still touring. He&rsquo;s married to Rebecca Packer and has two children.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?><html><body><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For most television viewers, the career of <a href="https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/celebrities/whats-next-for-tom-selleck-his-future-plans-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Selleck</a> begins with Thomas Magnum&rsquo;s Ferrari. For others, it starts around the Reagan family dinner table on </span><a href="https://www.womansworld.com/tag/blue-bloods" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blue Bloods</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Yet if you listen to Selleck talk about the experiences that truly shaped him, he almost invariably finds his way back to a very different place: the American frontier. More specifically, he returns to a 1979 television miniseries based on the novels of Louis L&rsquo;Amour, a project that not only altered the course of his career but, as he has frequently claimed, changed the course of his life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking back in his memoir </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Never-Know-Tom-Selleck/dp/B0CRF8L23S" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">You Never Know</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Selleck made it pretty clear. &ldquo;</span><a href="https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/celebrities/tom-selleck-and-sam-elliott-share-60-year-hollywood-friendship" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was a high-profile miniseries, and I was a key part of the cast,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s no exaggeration to say that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> changed me. I had done a solid piece of work, and people would actually see it. I had found a genre where I was sure I belonged. I had been exposed to a lifestyle that I had never really considered but I wouldn&rsquo;t soon forget. That job changed my professional opportunities and my whole outlook on what my appetites might be&mdash;and not only as an actor. In all of my life. This life should be a part of my life.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&rsquo;s a pretty amazing statement, particularly because Selleck wasn&rsquo;t talking about fame, ratings, awards or career momentum. He was instead talking about the basic idea of simply belonging. Somewhere between the horses, the landscape and the people surrounding him, he discovered something that resonated deeply.</span></p><body><div id="gist-answers-widget" class="gist-answers-widget">
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That realization might have surprised the young actor who arrived on the production. A newspaper profile published during that period described Selleck as Detroit-born and Los Angeles-raised, hardly someone whose background suggested he was destined to become one of the most recognizable Western stars of his generation. In fact, acting itself had not been the carefully mapped-out ambition many fans might assume. Reflecting on those early years, Selleck admitted, &ldquo;I got into the business by accident.&rdquo;</span></p>
<h2><b>His path to the West</b></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before acting took hold, he had attended college on a basketball scholarship and was still trying to figure out what direction his life would take. Westerns weren&rsquo;t part of some grand master plan, nor was the notion of him becoming a television icon. Like so many turning points in life, the opportunity simply appeared. And what </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> offered was more than a starring role. It offered an education.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Years later, while preparing to enter the National Cowboy &amp; Western Heritage Museum&rsquo;s Hall of Great Western Performers, Selleck reflected on the company he found himself keeping during that production. &ldquo;When I started doing <a href="https://www.womansworld.com/tag/westerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westerns</a>, it was my friend Ben Johnson,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;And what a way to start a Western with him next to you most of the time in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. And Slim Pickens was in that movie. Jack Elam was in that movie. Buck Taylor was in that movie. I could just watch people and learn.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That cast list reads like a Western Hall of Fame. Ben Johnson had worked as a rodeo cowboy before becoming an Academy Award-winning actor. Slim Pickens came directly from the rodeo circuit. Jack Elam and Buck Taylor were already beloved figures within the genre. For a younger actor still finding his voice, simply observing these men at work became a master class.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Author Louis L&rsquo;Amour&rsquo;s presence added another dimension. While Selleck was not initially a devoted reader of his novels, he quickly developed a deep appreciation for both the material and the man behind it. More importantly, they had introduced him to a genre that suddenly felt like home.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always enjoyed the Western genre,&rdquo; Selleck later explained, &ldquo;but I got hooked on Westerns with </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That word&mdash;hooked&mdash;appears repeatedly whenever he discusses the project. It wasn&rsquo;t simply another acting job or a stepping stone toward future opportunities. Something fundamental had happened, and the more Selleck reflected on that period, the clearer it became that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> affected him on multiple levels at once.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of those influences involved authenticity, a concept that would become increasingly important throughout his career. Even in 1979, Selleck appreciated the production&rsquo;s effort to avoid a polished Hollywood version of the Old West. Discussing the filming experience, he remembered, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an old-fashioned Western, but it is also realistic. We don&rsquo;t sell slick and processed up, because I was in a section dealing with a cattle drive. I wore the same outfit&mdash;and so did the others in the scenes&mdash;for six weeks. If I didn&rsquo;t, it wouldn&rsquo;t have had the same feel.&rdquo;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The comment may sound minor, but it hints at something that would become a recurring theme throughout his life. Selleck cared about the details, wanting things to feel genuine. As the years passed, that commitment would extend to saddles, firearms, hats, horses and virtually every other aspect of Western filmmaking.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet perhaps the most profound impact of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> occurred away from the cameras altogether. Years later, speaking to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Country Living</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Selleck revealed that the production planted an idea that never left him. &ldquo;When I got </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s where I realized that, if I ever could afford it, I&rsquo;d like to have a ranch and some land and horses.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&rsquo;s one of the most revealing comments he has ever made about the project because it moves beyond acting and proves that the production was influencing the life he wanted to build. Long before he owned a ranch, and long before he spent his days caring for horses and working the land, the seed had already been planted.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the same time, the professional benefits were impossible to ignore. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> demonstrated that Selleck looked comfortable in the saddle and believable in the Western world, which is something that producers noticed. One profile from the era observed that after seeing him in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, producer Ernie Frankel knew he had found the right actor for another Western project, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Concrete Cowboys</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Opportunities began arriving with increasing frequency.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And even more importantly, the friendships continued. Among them was a friendship with Louis L&rsquo;Amour that would soon lead to another memorable Western adventure, one built around a promise made by a group of actors and a novelist who hoped they might someday ride together again.</span></p>
<h2><b>Louis L&rsquo;Amour, &lsquo;The Shadow Riders&rsquo; and learning the craft</b></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> opened the door to the Western genre for Selleck, it also introduced him to relationships that would last for decades. Chief among them was Louis L&rsquo;Amour, whose novels had inspired the miniseries and whose friendship would leave a lasting impression on the actor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bond that developed among the cast and creative team during </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was strong enough that they made an unusual promise to one another. Looking back in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">You Never Know</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Selleck recalled, &ldquo;During </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ben Johnson, Jeff Osterhage, Louis L&rsquo;Amour, Sam Elliott and I had made a pact that if we got another chance to work together in a Western, we would all show up.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the time, nobody knew whether that opportunity would ever come. But Louis L&rsquo;Amour had other ideas. While the Sackett family stories became tied up in legal complications, preventing immediate follow-up adaptations, L&rsquo;Amour simply created a new family and a new adventure. &ldquo;With Louis&rsquo; </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> tied up in some kind of litigation,&rdquo; Selleck wrote, &ldquo;he created a new family, the Travens, in his next book, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Shadow Riders</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. CBS jumped at the chance to make it a movie.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just like that, the old gang was back together. &ldquo;So our band of brothers,&rdquo; Selleck remembered, &ldquo;and, oh yes, a new sister, Katharine Ross, were all in Sonora.&rdquo;</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_623405" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623405" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623405" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg" alt="LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER, Haley Joel Osment, Suzy Amis, Tom Selleck, 1997" width="1024" height="688" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 2165w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=246%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 246w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 300w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=768%2C516&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=1024%2C688&amp;quality=81&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=1536%2C1032&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1536w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=2048%2C1375&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2048w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=50%2C34&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 50w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=400%2C269&amp;quality=43&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=500%2C336&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=600%2C403&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=270%2C180&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 270w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=256%2C172&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 256w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=347%2C233&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 347w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=527%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 527w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=707%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 707w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=798%2C536&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 798w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDLAST_EC002.jpg?resize=1608%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1608w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner"><span class="caption wp-caption-623405">LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER, Haley Joel Osment, Suzy Amis, Tom Selleck, 1997</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623405">© TNT / Courtesy: Everett Collection</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The phrase &ldquo;band of brothers&rdquo; is telling. When Selleck discusses Westerns, he often talks about the trappings as well as the people. The friendships formed during these productions clearly mattered to him. In Sam Elliott he found a lifelong friend, n Ben Johnson he found a mentor and in Louis L&rsquo;Amour he found someone whose respect meant a great deal.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Shadow Riders</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> wrapped, L&rsquo;Amour presented Selleck with a gift that remains one of the most meaningful acknowledgments of his career. &ldquo;After we finished,&rdquo; Selleck wrote, &ldquo;Louis L&rsquo;Amour gave me a leather bound edition of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Shadow Riders</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. He signed it: &lsquo;To Tom Selleck. You make my people live. What more can I say? Louis.'&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For an actor portraying characters created by one of the most successful Western novelists in history, there was probably no higher compliment. L&rsquo;Amour wasn&rsquo;t simply praising a performance, but rather he was telling Selleck that he had successfully brought his fictional world to life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That validation came at a time when Selleck was becoming increasingly invested in Western storytelling. The genre had stopped being something he occasionally visited and was becoming something he actively studied. Years later, he would describe how his understanding evolved. &ldquo;The more I&rsquo;ve learned,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;the more particular I&rsquo;ve become.&rdquo;</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_623406" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623406" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623406 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg" alt="CROSSFIRE TRAIL, Tom Selleck, aired January 21, 2001." width="1024" height="1520" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 2021w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=111%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 111w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 202w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=768%2C1140&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=690%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 690w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=1035%2C1536&amp;quality=43&amp;strip=all 1035w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=1380%2C2048&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1380w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=34%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 34w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=269%2C400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 269w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=337%2C500&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 337w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=404%2C600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 404w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=116%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 116w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=157%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 157w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=238%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 238w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=320%2C475&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 320w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=361%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 361w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDCRTR_TN003.jpg?resize=728%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 728w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-623406 portrait-orientation">CROSSFIRE TRAIL, Tom Selleck, aired January 21, 2001.</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623406 portrait-orientation">Nigel Parry / TV Guide / ©TNT / courtesy Everett Collection</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As his Western career continued, Selleck developed a reputation for paying extraordinary attention to details that many viewers would never consciously notice. He cared about hats, saddles, firearms, wardrobe, horse tack and period accuracy. The more he learned about the history of the American West, the harder it became to ignore mistakes that Hollywood routinely accepted. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve gone for accuracy,&rdquo; he explained.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That commitment became a philosophy. Speaking during his Hall of Great Western Performers induction weekend, Selleck explained how he approached creating characters. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always found the accuracy of that stuff really important,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The way I learned my craft as an actor, props and wardrobe are extremely important. If you&rsquo;re cast right and then your wardrobe furthers who the character is and your props do, you&rsquo;re about 90 percent there. Then you only screw it up by acting.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&rsquo;s a funny line, but it reveals something significant about how he works. Selleck doesn&rsquo;t treat costumes and props as decoration, but instead as extensions of character. The right hat tells you something about a man while the right saddle adds to that story. The right revolver, rifle or pair of spurs helps create someone who feels real rather than manufactured.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over time, he became deeply involved in those choices. During the same interview, he enthusiastically discussed custom-built saddles, historically accurate spurs, period firearms and the painstaking research that went into productions like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monte Walsh</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Stand at Saber River</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. What emerges from those comments isn&rsquo;t the portrait of an actor casually passing through the genre. It sounds more like a collector, historian and preservationist rolled into one.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And others noticed. Director Simon Wincer, who would eventually collaborate with Selleck on several Westerns, understood just how much the actor enjoyed that side of the process. &ldquo;Tom&rsquo;s fantastic with that sort of stuff because he loves it all,&rdquo; Wincer observed.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_623407" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623407" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623407" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg" alt="MONTE WALSH, Keith Carradine, Tom Sellack, 2003" width="1024" height="682" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 2700w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=248%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 248w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;quality=71&amp;strip=all 300w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;quality=52&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;quality=76&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=1536%2C1023&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1536w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=2048%2C1364&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2048w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=50%2C33&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 50w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=400%2C266&amp;quality=52&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=270%2C180&amp;quality=71&amp;strip=all 270w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=258%2C172&amp;quality=71&amp;strip=all 258w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=350%2C233&amp;quality=52&amp;strip=all 350w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=532%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 532w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=713%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 713w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=805%2C536&amp;quality=52&amp;strip=all 805w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TCDMOWA_EC004.jpg?resize=1622%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1622w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner"><span class="caption wp-caption-623407">MONTE WALSH, Keith Carradine, Tom Sellack, 2003</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623407">Courtesy the Everett Collection</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actress Laura San Giacomo came away with a similar impression. &ldquo;The detail was so amazing,&rdquo; she recalled. &ldquo;I remember Tom being so proud of the detail that was in all the props and the guns and the period stuff.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What&rsquo;s fascinating is how naturally all of this seems to have grown out of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The young actor who arrived on that production hoping to do good work gradually became someone who wanted to know why a particular saddle was used, whether a rifle was historically correct or how a horseman of a certain era would have dressed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that curiosity never left him. As a matter of fact, it appears to have deepened with every Western he made. Looking back, Selleck often returned to the same thought.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;I was very lucky to get cast in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">,&rdquo; he said. Then, almost as if he were summing up the entire experience in a single sentence, he added: &ldquo;I got hooked on the genre.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By the end of the 1980s, that passion would lead him to perhaps the most iconic Western role of his career&mdash;a sharpshooter named Matthew Quigley, a sprawling adventure set in Australia and a film that would give him both a signature role and a horse that would remain part of his life long after the cameras stopped rolling.</span></p>
<h2><b>&lsquo;Quigley Down Under,&rsquo; Spike and bringing the West home</b></h2>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER (1990) | Official Trailer | MGM" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IpbydeNAmJg?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By the time </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quigley Down Under</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> arrived in 1990, Selleck had already achieved something many actors spend entire careers pursuing. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Magnum, P.I.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> had turned him into one of television&rsquo;s biggest stars, his face was instantly recognizable around the world and he had successfully moved between television and feature films. Yet despite all that success, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quigley Down Under</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> represented something special. Looking back years later, Selleck admitted that he had long carried a particular ambition. &ldquo;I was thinking the other day that I probably had two fantasies as an actor,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;And one is to do a Western, which I just did, and the other would be to do a baseball movie before I get too old and have to play a manager.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The comment might seem surprising considering that he had already appeared in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Concrete Cowboys</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Shadow Riders</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. But </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quigley</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was different. This was a large-scale theatrical Western built around a larger-than-life hero, the kind of role usually associated with the giants of the genre.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;When I found the script, it had already been through a lot of hands, one of them being Sean Connery&rsquo;s, but I just absolutely loved it,&rdquo; he reflected. &ldquo;It was this bigger-than-life, iconic character, the kind of role you would want to cast John Wayne in.&rdquo; The appeal was undeniable, but so was the pressure. Years later, Selleck admitted that stepping into the role wasn&rsquo;t entirely comfortable. &ldquo;I found it a little intimidating starring in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quigley</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> because I said, &lsquo;I think I would have cast John Wayne in this.&rsquo; And he would have done better, but I had to get over that.&rdquo;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When he accepted a Western role, more than taking a job, he was stepping into a tradition that he respected deeply and wanted to honor. And helping him achieve that was director Simon Wincer, who would become one of Selleck&rsquo;s most important collaborators. Reflecting on the production years later, Selleck praised Wincer&rsquo;s instincts and understanding of the material. &ldquo;I think Simon really got that picture,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s Australian, but he also understands horses.&rdquo; The Australian setting gave the film an added dimension as well. Rather than simply retelling familiar frontier stories, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quigley Down Under</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> placed a classic American Western hero in an unfamiliar landscape. Selleck thought that contrast was part of the film&rsquo;s enduring appeal. &ldquo;I think the idea of a fish out of water, particularly a cowboy, going somewhere else has a great allure.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film would ultimately become one of the most beloved Westerns of Selleck&rsquo;s career, and he remains proud of it decades later. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s passed the test of time and is still very, very popular,&rdquo; he said. The affection audiences continue to have for the film is undoubtedly connected to the care that Selleck and Wincer invested in every aspect of the production. When promoting the film in 1990, he was asked about Matthew Quigley&rsquo;s famous Sharps rifle. Rather than offering a brief answer, he immediately launched into a discussion of its history and technical specifications.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Years later, he was still discussing that rifle with obvious enthusiasm. &ldquo;Simon and I worked very hard to make this Sharps rifle a character in the script,&rdquo; he said. In Selleck&rsquo;s view, the weapon was part of the story itself, something audiences needed to understand in order to appreciate who Matthew Quigley was. &ldquo;The Sharps rifle was literally the instrument of this Avenging Angel,&rdquo; he explained. The effort paid off. Fans still quote dialogue from the film and still associate him with the character. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s tied to me,&rdquo; Selleck said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m proud of that.&rdquo;</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_623409" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623409" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623409 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg" alt="American actor Tom Selleck as Orrin Sackett in the TV movie 'The Sacketts', directed by Robert Totten, 1979. " width="1024" height="1280" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 2400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=132%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 132w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 240w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;quality=57&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;quality=57&amp;strip=all 819w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=1229%2C1536&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1229w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=1638%2C2048&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1638w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=40%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 40w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=320%2C400&amp;quality=71&amp;strip=all 320w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=400%2C500&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=480%2C600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 480w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=138%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 138w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=186%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 186w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=283%2C354&amp;quality=71&amp;strip=all 283w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=380%2C475&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 380w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=429%2C536&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 429w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-153510639.jpg?resize=864%2C1080&amp;quality=76&amp;strip=all 864w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-623409 portrait-orientation">American actor Tom Selleck as Orrin Sackett in the TV movie &lsquo;The Sacketts&rsquo;, directed by Robert Totten, 1979.</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623409 portrait-orientation">Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of what attracted him to projects like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quigley</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was the opportunity to learn. &ldquo;I enjoy learning or acquiring or just doing the kind of special skills that different characters have in a movie,&rdquo; he explained. Westerns offered those opportunities in abundance. They required horsemanship, marksmanship, physical confidence and an understanding of environments far removed from sound stages and studio lots. For Selleck, it was all an ideal fit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The production also introduced him to one of the most enduring companions of his career. The horse Selleck rode in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quigley Down Under</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was named Spike, and long after filming ended, Spike remained part of his life. &ldquo;Spike is still in my barn,&rdquo; Selleck would share. The horse eventually made the trip from Australia to California and even appeared in another film. &ldquo;Spikey&rsquo;s been in two movies,&rdquo; Selleck joked. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a big time movie star.&rdquo; The story is amusing, but it also illustrates how completely Westerns had become woven into his life. The productions didn&rsquo;t simply end when filming wrapped. In some cases, they literally followed him home.</span></p>
<h2><b>The Selleck ranch</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_623410" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623410" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623410" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg" alt="5/21/95 Westlake, Calif. The Ranch Home Of Actor Tom Selleck" width="1024" height="694" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 2100w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=243%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 243w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;quality=52&amp;strip=all 300w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=768%2C521&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=1024%2C694&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=1536%2C1042&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1536w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=2048%2C1389&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2048w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=50%2C34&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 50w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=400%2C271&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=500%2C339&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=600%2C407&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=254%2C172&amp;quality=52&amp;strip=all 254w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=344%2C233&amp;quality=52&amp;strip=all 344w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=522%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 522w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=700%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=790%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 790w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-51102354-e1779416399498.jpg?resize=1593%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1593w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner"><span class="caption wp-caption-623410">5/21/95 Westlake, Calif. The Ranch Home Of Actor Tom Selleck</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623410">James Aylott/Getty Images</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, that process had begun years earlier while filming </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Reflecting on that experience, Selleck recalled, &ldquo;When I got </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, I was just hooked. It&rsquo;s where I realized that, if I ever could afford it, I&rsquo;d like to have a ranch and some land and horses.&rdquo; Amazingly, what began as a passing realization eventually became reality. Selleck purchased a ranch in Ventura County and embraced a lifestyle that would have seemed unlikely to the young man who grew up in suburban Southern California. More importantly, he never described the property as merely a refuge from Hollywood. When discussing the ranch, he usually talked about the work involved. &ldquo;I do most of the grunt work around the ranch, and 65 acres is a pretty big piece of property for around here.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The connection between the ranch and the Westerns wasn&rsquo;t something biographers invented after the fact. Selleck made the connection himself as the Westerns introduced him to horses, ranches and landscapes he had never experienced growing up in Sherman Oaks. Most importantly, they introduced him to a way of life that clearly resonated with him. The dream that first surfaced while filming </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> eventually became part of his everyday reality. By the time Spike was standing in a barn on his California ranch, the line between the Westerns he made and the life he lived had become remarkably difficult to separate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the years passed, another realization began to emerge the power of &ldquo;place&rdquo; and how landscapes, open space and the connection between people and the land meant something.&nbsp; And that realization would shape some of the most meaningful work of his career, including a project that many fans consider his finest Western performance.</span></p>
<h2><b>&lsquo;Monte Walsh&rsquo; and Why He Never Stopped Wanting to Ride</b></h2>
<figure id="attachment_623411" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623411" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623411 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg" alt="American actor Tom Selleck, wearing an open collar checked shirt, jeans and a cowboy hat, among guests attending an event, United States, circa 1980. " width="1024" height="1540" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 3670w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=110%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 110w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 199w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=768%2C1155&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 681w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=1021%2C1536&amp;quality=43&amp;strip=all 1021w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=1362%2C2048&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1362w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=33%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 33w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=266%2C400&amp;quality=43&amp;strip=all 266w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=332%2C500&amp;quality=43&amp;strip=all 332w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=399%2C600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 399w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=114%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 114w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=155%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 155w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=235%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 235w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=316%2C475&amp;quality=43&amp;strip=all 316w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=356%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 356w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2188195012.jpg?resize=718%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 718w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-623411 portrait-orientation">American actor Tom Selleck, wearing an open collar checked shirt, jeans and a cowboy hat, among guests attending an event, United States, circa 1980.</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623411 portrait-orientation">Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If there is one idea that surfaces repeatedly whenever Tom Selleck talks about Westerns, it&rsquo;s the importance of landscape and the role it plays in shaping both stories and the people who inhabit them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking back on his years making Westerns, Selleck once reflected, &ldquo;This sense of place has become very important and was instilled in me when I started doing Westerns.&rdquo; It wasn&rsquo;t an isolated comment. In another interview, he expanded on the thought and explained what attracted him to certain Westerns over others. &ldquo;The kind of movies Westerns I prefer doing are not really towny Westerns,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re movies where the land is a central character. Vast open spaces, I think audiences really respond to that, particularly nowadays.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He made a similar observation while discussing the appeal of the genre more broadly. &ldquo;In the kind of Westerns I like, the land is usually a central character in the movie. It&rsquo;s like one of the actors.&rdquo;</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_623413" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623413" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623413" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg" alt="RUBY JEAN AND JOE, from left: Tom Selleck, Rebekah Johnson, aired August 11, 1996. " width="1024" height="687" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 3000w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=246%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 246w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=768%2C515&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=1024%2C687&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1024w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=1536%2C1031&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1536w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=2048%2C1374&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2048w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=50%2C34&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 50w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=400%2C268&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=500%2C336&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=600%2C403&amp;quality=76&amp;strip=all 600w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=270%2C180&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 270w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=256%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 256w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=347%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 347w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=528%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 528w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=708%2C475&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 708w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=799%2C536&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 799w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TSDRUJE_SN004.jpg?resize=1610%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1610w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner"><span class="caption wp-caption-623413">RUBY JEAN AND JOE, from left: Tom Selleck, Rebekah Johnson, aired August 11, 1996.</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623413">Kelvin Jones / ©Showtime Networks Inc. / Courtesy Everett Collection</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That perspective helps explain many of the projects he chose throughout his career. Whether it was the frontier settings of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the Australian Outback of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quigley Down Under</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or the sweeping vistas of later Western productions, the locations themselves were often as memorable as the characters riding through them. Selleck wasn&rsquo;t drawn exclusively to action-oriented Westerns. He was drawn to stories that immersed viewers in a world and allowed them to experience it alongside the people on screen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Western production slowed in Hollywood, he became increasingly vocal about missing the genre. &ldquo;I hope I&rsquo;m not done doing westerns, though, as they are now very hard to get off the ground. I so miss it,&rdquo; he admitted. Then he explained why those projects continued to matter so much to him. &ldquo;More than any other experience I&rsquo;ve had in film, these movies create a sense of place.&rdquo; And there&rsquo;s that word again.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That appreciation found perhaps its purest expression in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monte Walsh</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the 2003 television adaptation of Jack Schaefer&rsquo;s celebrated novel. The story follows aging cowboys confronting a rapidly changing world, watching as the life they love slowly disappears around them. It isn&rsquo;t a Western built around shootouts or spectacular action sequences. Instead, it&rsquo;s a story about change, loyalty, friendship and identity.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_623414" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623414" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623414 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg" alt="THE SHADOW RIDERS, Tom Selleck, aired September 28, 1982" width="1024" height="1334" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 3633w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=127%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 127w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=230%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 230w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=768%2C1001&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=786%2C1024&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 786w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=1179%2C1536&amp;quality=52&amp;strip=all 1179w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=1572%2C2048&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1572w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=38%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 38w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=307%2C400&amp;quality=43&amp;strip=all 307w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=384%2C500&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 384w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=460%2C600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 460w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=132%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 132w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=179%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 179w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=272%2C354&amp;quality=43&amp;strip=all 272w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=365%2C475&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 365w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=411%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 411w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TBDSHRI_EC002.jpg?resize=829%2C1080&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 829w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-623414 portrait-orientation">THE SHADOW RIDERS, Tom Selleck, aired September 28, 1982</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623414 portrait-orientation">©CBS/courtesy Everett Collection</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not surprisingly, Selleck connected with it immediately. Discussing the film, he offered a simple explanation for its appeal. &ldquo;</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monte Walsh</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a simple morality story, as most great westerns are.&rdquo; The statement is revealing because it cuts directly to what he consistently admired about the genre. Westerns, at least the ones he valued most, weren&rsquo;t primarily about violence or adventure. They were about choices, responsibility and the people trying to live according to a code even when circumstances made that difficult.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those themes appear repeatedly throughout Selleck&rsquo;s comments over the years. During a discussion of his involvement with the Josephson Institute of Ethics and the Character Counts program, he highlighted six values the organization sought to promote: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. He spoke passionately about the importance of character and personal accountability, observing that &ldquo;people who do the right thing tend to be self-governing and they need less laws&hellip;&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&rsquo;s difficult not to hear echoes of the Western heroes he admired in those comments. The values he described were often the same values embodied by characters such as Matthew Quigley, Conn Conagher, Rafe Covington and Monte Walsh. They weren&rsquo;t perfect men; in fact, in many cases they were deeply flawed, but what mattered was that they kept trying to do the right thing.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_623415" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623415" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter portrait-orientation"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-623415 portrait-orientation" src="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg" alt="QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, US poster art, Laura San Giacomo, Tom Selleck, 1990." width="1024" height="1515" srcset="https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all 2005w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=112%2C165&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 112w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=203%2C300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 203w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=768%2C1136&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 768w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=692%2C1024&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 692w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=1038%2C1536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1038w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=1384%2C2048&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1384w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=34%2C50&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 34w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=270%2C400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 270w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=338%2C500&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 338w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=405%2C600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 405w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=116%2C172&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 116w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=157%2C233&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 157w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=239%2C354&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 239w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=321%2C475&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 321w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=362%2C536&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 362w, https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MSDQUDO_EC014.jpg?resize=730%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 730w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 60px), 660px"><figcaption><span class="figcaption-inner portrait-orientation"><span class="caption wp-caption-623415 portrait-orientation">QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, US poster art, Laura San Giacomo, Tom Selleck, 1990.</span><br><span class="credit wp-credit-623415 portrait-orientation">© MGM/courtesy: Everett Collection</span></span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Selleck found something especially relatable in Monte Walsh himself. Reflecting on the character years later, he offered one of the most personal observations in any of his interviews. &ldquo;Because he was so dedicated and in love with the life, as I wished I could be, maybe I was born in the wrong era.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Selleck wasn&rsquo;t simply praising the character, he was expressing affection for the values Monte represented and for a way of life that had fascinated him ever since </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> first introduced him to it. Even when he stepped away from traditional Westerns, those influences continued to surface in his work. Discussing the Jesse Stone films, he repeatedly emphasized character over plot.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;Jesse is a labor of love,&rdquo; he said, describing the series as &ldquo;completely character driven.&rdquo; He praised stories that focused on people rather than spectacle and noted that &ldquo;character driven stuff is hard to find in feature films.&rdquo; At another point, he suggested that Jesse Stone could easily exist in a Western setting. The clothes might change, the vehicles might replace horses and the setting might move from the frontier to modern-day New England, but the essential character remained familiar.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same could be said for Frank Reagan on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blue Bloods</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Although separated from the Old West by more than a century, Reagan&rsquo;s concerns often revolved around duty, responsibility, integrity and family. The setting changed, but many of the values that attracted Selleck to Western heroes remained present. And yet, despite decades of success in other genres, Westerns never loosened their grip on him.</span></p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Tom Selleck Induction" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hn_QcYroGic?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By 2024, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blue Bloods</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was ending and Selleck had spent nearly half a century building one of television&rsquo;s most durable careers. He had become a household name, earned countless accolades and created a gallery of memorable characters. Still, when asked what kind of project remained on his wish list, the answer came easily.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&ldquo;A good Western&rsquo;s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">always</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on my list,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I miss that; I want to sit on a horse again.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In some ways, that simple statement feels like the perfect ending to the story. The young actor who stumbled into </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 1979 couldn&rsquo;t have known where the experience would lead. He couldn&rsquo;t have known he would become friends with Louis L&rsquo;Amour, learn from Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens, star in beloved Westerns, develop an abiding fascination with authenticity or eventually own a ranch filled with horses. He certainly couldn&rsquo;t have known that one day he would be inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet when he accepted that honor, Selleck acknowledged the journey in a way that felt characteristically humble. Speaking about the recognition, he reflected on his unlikely path from suburban Southern California to one of the highest honors in Western entertainment. &ldquo;For a kid who grew up in a housing tract in Sherman Oaks, California, it&rsquo;s kind of nice to be accepted in this way.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As he wrote in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">You Never Know</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s no exaggeration to say that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sacketts</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> changed me.&rdquo; After listening to Tom Selleck tell the story in his own words for nearly 50 years, it&rsquo;s difficult to reach any other conclusion.</span></p>

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<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?><html><body><p data-start="0" data-end="363">Whether you&rsquo;re a film buff or just love experimenting with new looks, you&rsquo;ve probably come across the Sofia Coppola aesthetic. Like the <a href="https://www.womansworld.com/shopping/home-shopping/get-the-nancy-meyers-aesthetic-at-dollar-tree-for-1-50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Meyers</a> or <a href="https://www.womansworld.com/shopping/home-shopping/get-the-nora-ephron-aesthetic-at-dollar-tree-for-1-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nora Ephron-inspired styles</a>, it draws its charm from the iconic look and mood of the director&rsquo;s most beloved films, including <em data-start="283" data-end="304">Lost in Translation</em> (2003), <em data-start="313" data-end="331">Marie Antoinette</em> (2006), and <em data-start="344" data-end="355">Priscilla</em> (2023).</p>
<p data-start="365" data-end="540">If you want to bring that dreamy, cinematic vibe into your home without spending like you&rsquo;re decorating an actual movie set, Dollar Tree is a surprisingly good place to start.</p>
<p data-start="542" data-end="888" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">The discount store is packed with budget-friendly finds that can help you capture the look&mdash;from elegant drinkware to subtle, eye-catching decor pieces that feel straight out of a film scene. Keep reading to explore what the Sofia Coppola aesthetic is all about and discover the stylish Dollar Tree decor that can help you recreate it on a budget.</p><body><div id="gist-answers-widget" class="gist-answers-widget">
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<h2>What is the Sofia Coppola aesthetic?</h2>
<p data-start="149" data-end="518">The Sofia Coppola aesthetic is all about creating a dreamy, romantic, softly feminine space. It leans into a delicate, almost cinematic mood, with pastel tones, gentle textures, and an overall feeling of effortless nostalgia. It&rsquo;s often compared to <a href="https://www.womansworld.com/shopping/dollar-tree-coquette-room-decor-for-a-feminine-spring-aesthetic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the coquette style</a>, but with a more film-inspired, slightly nostalgic twist drawn straight from Coppola&rsquo;s iconic movies.</p>
<p data-start="520" data-end="846">To recreate it at home, start with your color palette. Think soft pinks, baby blues, lavender, and creamy neutrals&mdash;shades that instantly make a space feel light and airy. From there, focus on maximizing natural light with sheer curtains, and layering in flowing fabrics like lace, silk, or velvet to add softness and movement.</p>
<p data-start="848" data-end="934">The goal is a space that feels bright, romantic, and almost like a memory of girlhood.</p>
<p data-start="936" data-end="1330" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Once your foundation is set, bring in playful, film-like details that feel straight out of Coppola&rsquo;s world. Polaroid photos, fresh flowers, and whimsical statement pieces&mdash;like a disco ball reminiscent of <em data-start="1140" data-end="1158">Marie Antoinette</em>&mdash;help bring personality into the space. Florals are essential, and subtle patterns like soft stripes can add just enough visual interest without overwhelming the aesthetic.</p>

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<h2>Dollar Tree Sofia Coppola aesthetic</h2>
<h3>Pink candle holder</h3>
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<p>This <a href="https://www.dollartree.com/pink-glass-candle-holders-256x256x209-in/344347" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pink glass candle holder</a> is one of our favorite products from Dollar Tree and it&rsquo;s perfect to nail the Sofia Coppola vibe. Not only does the color match the theme but the elegant glass design adds a fancy touch to the space. The $1.25 piece can hold your tea lights, votives and taper candles, so you can use it however suits you best.</p>
<p>One happy shopper shared their review of the product, writing, &ldquo;Great quality and beautiful looking! For $1.25, can&rsquo;t beat the aesthetic and value for these very beautiful candle holders. They are about the same quality if not better than Urban Outfitters or Target&hellip; Highly recommend for the price!&rdquo;</p>
<h3>Cool pink glasses</h3>
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<p>These drinking glasses are a stunning pink that works nicely for the Sofia Coppola aesthetic and with prices like $1.50 each, you can&rsquo;t go wrong with the purchase. You can choose between the cool <a href="https://www.dollartree.com/libbey-glass-cooler-pink-glass-tumbler-1-ct/398450" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pink tumblers</a> and the <a href="https://www.dollartree.com/libbey-pink-sprayed-stemless-wine-glass-1-ct/398453" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stemless wine glasses</a> (or grab both for a full pink set) and enjoy your favorite beverages from them.</p>
<p>Whether you&rsquo;re serving guests or sipping a cocktail on your patio, these glasses are just what you need to sell the aesthetic and stick to a budget.</p>
<h3>Colorful disco balls</h3>
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<p data-start="0" data-end="262">This <a href="https://www.dollartree.com/seasonal-collection-disco-ball-assorted-colors-1-ct/400545" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disco ball</a> is the perfect finishing touch for a Sofia Coppola-inspired space&mdash;think <em data-start="88" data-end="106">Marie Antoinette</em> energy brought to life. And the best part? Dollar Tree offers a few fun, budget-friendly versions, including pink, yellow and pink-and-yellow disco balls.</p>
<p data-start="264" data-end="383">At just $3, you can choose a style that fits your space, whether you want a soft pop of color or a playful mix of both.</p>
<p data-start="385" data-end="600" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Lightweight and decorative, this disco ball adds just the right amount of sparkle. It nods to the whimsical glamour of <em data-start="504" data-end="522">Marie Antoinette</em> while standing out beautifully in an otherwise soft, feminine and airy room.</p>

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