Yellowstone prequel series 1923 has added James Bond star Timothy Dalton to its cast.

The new Paramount+ show is also due to star Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, and focuses on the early 20th century period.

Dalton, who famously played 007 in the '80s, will play the role of Donald Whitfield in the show, who is described as a powerful and self-confident man who is enormously wealthy and intimidating, and has a strong lack of empathy.

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The news comes a couple of weeks after it was confirmed that Game of Thrones star Jerome Flynn would be joining the cast as Banner Creighton, described as a no-nonsense Scot who leads the local sheepmen.

The show focuses on a new generation of the central Dutton family, showing them navigate the post-war world and deal with challenges such as a pandemic, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression.

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Terminator 2's Robert Patrick, Scream's Marley Shelton as Emma Dutton, The Politician's Julia Schlaepfer, Chicago Fire's Brian Geraghty and Aminah Nieves are also part of the cast.

"The next story will introduce a new generation of the Dutton family and explore the early 20th century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition, and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home," Paramount+ said previously of the project.

1923 is one of a number of spin-offs, following in from 1883, with 6666 in the works. Meanwhile, the main Yellowstone series is due to finally return next month.

1923 will debut in December on Paramount+. Yellowstone season five returns with a two-hour premiere on the same platform on November 13.

From: Digital Spy