{"id":41371,"date":"2026-03-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41371"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:58:09","slug":"wind-river-2017-written-directed-by-taylor-sheridan-starring-jeremy-renner-elizabeth-olsen-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41371","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wind River&#8221; (2017) written &amp; directed by Taylor Sheridan, starring Jeremy Renner &amp; Elizabeth Olsen \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z032626zview_windriver.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wind River <\/strong><\/em>(2017)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Taylor Sheridan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Taylor Sheridan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Jon Bernthal, James Jordan, Kelsey Asbille, Julia Jones, Teo Briones, Apesanahkwat, Tantoo Cardinal, Eric Lange, Gil Birmingham, Tokala Black Elk, Gil Birmingham, Martin Sensmeier, Austin R. Grant, Ian Bohen <\/strong>and <strong>Graham Greene<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Nothing is harder to track than the truth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Natalie Hanson&#8217;s frozen dead body is found on the Wind River Indian Reservation after a brutal snow, rookie FBI Agent Jane Banner is sent in to investigate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The autopsy reveals signs of rape and blunt trauma, but because Natalie died from a pulmonary hemorrhage caused by breathing subzero air, the coroner can not list the cause of death as murder.\u00a0 That means that Agent Banner is unable to get additional support to investigate Natalie&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agent Banner knows she&#8217;s in over her head.\u00a0 She is new to the area.\u00a0 The customs and ways of life of the Northern Arapaho tribe who live on the reservation are alien to her.\u00a0 So Agent Banner turns to Cory Lambert for assistance.\u00a0 Lambert is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Agent who found Natalie&#8217;s body.\u00a0 Lambert is an expert tracker and knows the people having been married to a Northern Arapaho woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Banner and Lambert begin to backtrack Natalie&#8217;s last hours.\u00a0 The will uncover another murder and conspiracy that leaves them outnumbered and on their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Wind River<\/em> was filmed on location with some scenes filmed in real blizzard conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Wind River<\/em> is the first screenplay that he didn&#8217;t write on spec.\u00a0 Both<em> Sicario<\/em> and <em>Hell or High Water<\/em> were written on spec.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Wind River<\/em> is a bit of a slow burn.\u00a0 But the amazing cast, the ultimate reveal of Natalie&#8217;s murder and the explosive gun battle after the sudden standoff are &lt;chef&#8217;s kiss&gt;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wind River<\/em> (2017) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z032626zview_windriver2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind River (2017) Director: Taylor Sheridan Screenplay: Taylor Sheridan Stars: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Jon Bernthal, James Jordan, Kelsey Asbille,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41372,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41371\/revisions\/41372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}