Jimmie Tramel
Tulsa World

In a 2023 interview that followed the final episode of the shot-in-Oklahoma series “Reservation Dogs,” co-creator and showrunner Sterlin Harjo was asked this question: What’s next?

His response: “I’ve got a few things. Ethan Hawke and I are doing a couple of things together. And there’s some other projects and feature films in the works.”

Clarity arrived this week on a Harjo collaboration with Hawke.

According to a Deadline exclusive, FX has ordered a pilot for “The Sensitive Kind,” a Harjo-created drama described as a “Tulsa noir.” Following the initial news, the Tulsa World received independent confirmation that the project will be filmed in Tulsa.

Deadline reported Hawke will star and serve as an executive producer alongside Harjo and Garrett Basch. Harjo, a Tulsa-based filmmaker, will write and direct the pilot.

The venture will reunite Hawk and Harjo. In a final-season and emotion-stirring episode of “Reservation Dogs,” Hawke guest-starred as a father Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs) never knew she had.

In a past Tulsa World interview, “Reservation Dogs” casting director Angelique Midthunder complimented the performances of Hawke and Jacobs in the episode.

“He did such a great job, and it was really fun and heartwarming for me,” Midthunder said. “She did such a good job of kind of portraying her hurt in the beginning, when we first saw the introduction of their relationship, and then we are kind of watching her heart melt throughout the episode when she meets her siblings and when she sees where he comes from. It was really sweet.”

Hawke was photographed at various locations, including Buck Atom’s Cosmic Curios on 66, Philbrook Museum of Art and Circle Cinema, while in Tulsa for the filming of the episode.

When “Reservation Dogs” was nominated for a Peabody Award in 2023, the announcement was made by Hawke, who described the show as a brilliant coming-of-age series unlike anything ever seen.

Said Hawke: “With its completely bizarre and unique droll sense of humor and its break-out young cast, this show takes us on a welcome surreal journey that vividly captures a defiant joy.”

This story was first published in the Tulsa World and was republished with permission.