The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $45 million against an $11 million budget. Wind River premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on August 4, 2017.
Sheridan has said that he wrote the film to raise awareness of the issue of the high number of Indigenous women who are raped and murdered, both on and off reservations. Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, and Graham Greene also star. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Wind River is a 2017 neo-Western crime film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan.
