As Taylor Sheridan prepares for Landman to go into production, he teamed up with 1923’s Brandon Sklenar for a secret project.
The upcoming thriller F.A.S.T. recently filmed in Marbella, Spain, going nearly unnoticed despite the large scale of production on the Warner Bros. Project. Peter Welter, who is the executive producer and CEO of Malaga-based company Fresco Film, shared insight into the work that went into F.A.S.T.
“Part of our work for major production companies is to avoid drawing attention to ourselves. This time, we managed it,” Welter told SUR in English about the film, which was shot in Alicante, Murcia, Madrid and Toledo.
According to the official synopsis, F.A.S.T. follows “a former special forces commando, down on his luck after he returns Stateside, who is tapped by the DEA to lead a black op strike team against CIA-protected drug dealers in his town.”
In addition to Sklenar, the film stars Juliana Canfield, LaKeith Stanfield, Jason Clarke, Sam Claflin, Trevante Rhodes and Chloe Coleman.
“We needed a mansion to serve as the residence of some drug traffickers and we found it in Malaga, between Marbella and Estepona,” Welter shared. “It was a shoot in a private residential development, which allowed us to camouflage the filming very well.”
Welter praised executive producer Sheridan for the work that went into F.A.S.T., adding, “It was also a major shoot, filming over 14 weeks on three soundstages.”
Before F.A.S.T., Sklenar was catapulted into stardom thanks to the Yellowstone spinoff 1923. (Yellowstone aired from 2018 to 2024, with additional series 1883 and 1923 focusing on various ancestors of the original show’s Dutton family.)
1923 starred Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford as relatives of Kevin Costner’s John Dutton. Sklenar, meanwhile, stole scenes in the role of Spencer Dutton as season 1 followed the challenges of a historic drought and Prohibition.
As Sklenar’s career expanded with opportunities in It Ends with Us, Drop and The Housemaid, he expressed gratitude to Sheridan for believing in him before reuniting on F.A.S.T.
“I’m just excited to work with great directors and great actors, and just continue to learn and grow. I’d like to direct at some point in the next five years. I’m kind of just trying to learn,” Sklenar told Forbes in 2025. “The little kid in me, I would love to do a proper western — a proper, straight western — that has been a dream of mine for a long time. I kind of touch it a little bit in 1923, but that’s something that I would love to do.”
Sklenar was candid about working with Sheridan, telling Esquire in February 2025, “I owe it all to this show. I was grinding for 12 to 13 years before that, and this was the thing that did it. For [Sheridan] to put that faith in me to play this incredible character he wrote, I’ll forever be in debt to him. I’m just so honored that I got to do it and hopefully continue to do it.”
The actor later found himself involved in the legal battle between his It Ends With Us costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni when text messages were released in January referencing 1923.
“I hope your show gives you space to hustle. Especially once It comes out, week 2 will be a time that it will get especially heated for you. Just something to think about and maximize,” Lively wrote to Sklenar, who replied, “I’m working on it. They are particularly s***ty about that. But I’m gonna do everything I can to make it happen. It would be a crime to not ride that momentum.”
Sklenar noted that he was looking forward to production wrapping up on 1923 since the second season “was only meant to be the 8 and they added 7 more as soon as we started the first 8.”
“No more shows after this. That’s for damn sure,” he added.
Lively and Baldoni eventually settled their case before heading to trial.
