24-02-2025
Dark Winds Scores Early Renewal Ahead of Season 3 Premiere
AMC Networks' acclaimed period drama Dark Winds has been renewed for a fourth season, nearly two weeks ahead of its Season 3 premiere on Sunday, March 9.
The eight-episode Season 4 is set to begin filming in Santa Fe, New Mexico in March, with an eye on a 2026 release. It will also mark the directorial debut of series star and executive producer Zahn McClarnon.
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'When we greenlit the first season of Dark Winds, we saw the potential for an authentic and long-running franchise that could live alongside the worlds we were building around The Walking Dead and Anne Rice,' Dan McDermott, president of entertainment for AMC Networks, said in a statement. 'That is exactly what this cast and creative team delivered, and the fans have responded…. There is so much great storytelling yet to come in these expanded third and fourth seasons.'
Added series lead/EP McClarnon, 'I'm looking forward to exploring and inhabiting the character of Joe Leaphorn once again in Season 4, and I'm excited to make my directorial debut on a show that means so much to me…. And of course, I'm most thrilled to be spending time with this wonderful cast and crew whom I have grown to love.'
Starring McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten and Deanna Allison — all of whom will be coming by TVLine's New York video studio on March 5 for a TVLine Spotlight Q&A — Dark Winds follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito of the Navajo Tribal Police solving mysteries on their reservation as it is besieged by increasingly violent crimes in the 1970s.
Season 3 picks up six months after the events of Season 2 and follows Leaphorn and Chee as they investigate the disappearance of two boys, with only an abandoned bicycle and blood-stained patch of ground left in their wake. Meanwhile, Bernadette Manuelito attempts to settle into her new life 500 miles from home with the Border Patrol, but stumbles across a conspiracy involving human and drug smuggling with far-reaching of TVLine
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