It looks like Kurt Sutter has just lined up his next series, courtesy of Netflix. The Sons of Anarchy and Mayans M.C. co-creator has struck a deal with Netflix to create a new western series called The Abandons. The plan is for the series to consist of hourlong episodes that come with all of the gritty action we’ve come to expect from Sutter’s stories, but this time set in the Old West.

This follows a previous deal with Netflix that will see Sutter direct the upcoming period movie This Beast, further expanding his relationship with the streaming service. The idea he’s had for The Abandons actually predates Sons of Anarchy and Sutter’s other most famous television work, so it’s a bit of a passion project that’s finally coming to fruition. Sutter spoke about the new series in a recent chat with Deadline.

“I’ve always wanted to do a western, even before Sons, and then Deadwood came out,” he said. “There’s that great lore of Ian Anderson wanting to be a great rock guitarist, and he saw Clapton play, and he said, ‘F*ck, I’m going to become the best rock flautist that ever lived.’ And he did just that for Jethro Tull. This is how I felt when I saw Deadwood. I said, ‘Let me stick to the crime genre’ and then used just about every actor that was on that show. But I do love the genre.”

“I’ve always been fascinated with the origins of La Cosa Nostra, how these Sicilian peasant families were being more than marginalized by the land barons and the aristocrats,” The Sons of Anarchy creator added. “These families banded together to defend themselves from these abusive land barons, and from that taking those matters into their own hands, La Cosa Nostra was born and became the authority and the law and the order of the land.”

On his other influences for this show, Sutter said, “Over the pandemic, I was watching reruns of Bonanza, and first of all, it completely holds up. I remember watching it as a kid, but I just remember there’s an episode where somebody gets killed, and Hoss just wants revenge, and I mean, like, dark f*cking revenge. Ultimately, it’s a Sunday network TV ending, but I just realized that the Cartwrights were a bullet away from being outlaws, right? And I loved that it all came from that deep sense of loyalty to the family, the land, the town. Those were the origins of this, with the working title The Abandons.”

Kurt Sutter also weighed in on the tragic accident that left Halyna Hutchins dead on the set of Rust in October. He says how he’s never had an incident on any of his sets because they “always followed protocol.” Even so, Sutter is willing to abide by any new safety regulations that come about as a result of the Rust incident, whether that comes down to rubber guns. The investigation is still underway on the shooting and the longtime ramifications it will leave on the industry remain to be seen.

It’s unclear when The Abandons will start production or arrive on Netflix. This news comes to us from Deadline.