It is with great fervor that audiences received the news that the story of Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) will continue to unfold before their eyes come 2025. The thrill of Dark Winds is by no means over yet, as AMC wants another season of crime solving. In that faith, AMC and AMC+ have announced that ahead of the third season, the series will be welcoming notable guest stars, led by Jenna Elfman and Bruce Greenwood. The company also announced the start of production in New Mexico on the third season of the critically acclaimed, noir thriller. While the start of filming is clearly welcoming news, new episodes of the crime drama are not expected until the first months of 2025.

Dark Winds is based on the late Tony Hillerman‘s ’70s-set detective novels, Leaphorn & Chee, and is set in the 1970s in a remote town in the Navajo Nation. The guest cast for the third season will see Elfman (Fear the Walking Dead) as FBI Special Agent Sylvia Washington, and Greenwood (The Fall of the House of Usher) as Tom Spenser. The rest of the guest cast includes Raoul Max Trujillo (Mayans M.C.) as Budge, Tonantzin Carmelo (La Brea) and Alex Meraz (The Twilight Saga: New Moon) as Border Patrol Agents Eleanda Garza and Ivan Muños respectively, Derek Hinkey (American Primeval) as Shorty Bowlegs, and Phil Burke (Rabbit Hole) as Michael Halsey. Others include Christopher Heyerdahl (Under the Banner of Heaven) as Dr Reynolds, and Terry Serpico (Yellowstone) as Border Patrol Senior Chief Ed Henry.