Kevin Costner as John Dutton in “Yellowstone” Kevin Lynch/Paramount+
Kevin Costner is formally achieved with Yellowstone.
“I simply need to attain out and allow you to know that after this lengthy 12 months and a half of engaged on Horizon and doing all the issues that’s required, and interested by Yellowstone, that beloved collection that I really like and I do know you like,” Costner mentioned in a video shared through X late Thursday, June 20.
He continued, “I simply realized that I’m not going to have the ability to proceed season 5B or into the longer term. It was one thing that actually modified me. I beloved it. And I do know you really liked it. I simply needed to let you already know that I received’t be returning. I really like the connection we’ve been in a position to develop, and I’ll see you on the films.”
An replace for you guys. I’ll see you on the films. pic.twitter.com/DpuC5cOP6F
— Kevin Costner & MW (@modernwest) June 21, 2024
Costner’s official affirmation of his Yellowstone departure comes simply hours after Paramount Community introduced that the ultimate episodes will premiere on Sunday, November 10, at 8 p.m. ET after a prolonged delay. The primary half of season 5 concluded in January 2023.
Yellowstone is understood for its household feuds, wild west antics and cowboy controversies — and the remaining season 5 episodes will proceed to deliver the drama. The primary half of Yellowstone’s ultimate season completed airing in January 2023, and the present was subsequently in limbo. Paramount later confirmed in Could 2023 that the remainder of […]
Costner’s involvement within the second half of season 5 has been unclear, however he was not talked about in Paramount’s announcement on Thursday.
Costner beforehand denied that his Yellowstone exit was the results of a feud with present creator Taylor Sheridan or his busy schedule with the four-part Horizon saga, the primary of which hits theaters on June 28.
“I’ve taken a beating from these f–king guys and I do know a number of occasions the place it’s coming from,” he advised Deadline final month of the rumors. “I simply elected to not get into that. But when you already know me effectively sufficient, I made Yellowstone the primary precedence, and to insinuate the rest can be improper. I didn’t provoke any of these issues. They did.”
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Costner continued, “I left precisely once they needed, and it made it arduous on me. It seems they didn’t have the scripts for 5B. They wanted 4 extra days simply to finish the primary eight episodes. I left early to present them what they wanted to have a whole eight, and I felt unhealthy that the viewers didn’t get 10.”
Regardless of the drama behind the scenes, Costner has mentioned he can be prepared to return to the position of John Dutton.
“If I just like the story [and] the place it was going, I might return,” he mentioned throughout a Sunday, June 16, interview with CBS Sunday Mornings. “I did every part that I used to be contracted to do with Yellowstone.”
