Kevin Costner has formally confirmed that he is not going to be returning to Yellowstone, simply hours after Paramount Network introduced the premiere date for the present’s last six episodes.
The second half of Yellowstone’s fifth and last season will premiere on November 10, however Costner’s John Dutton is not going to be part of it. The actor posted a video on Instagram on Thursday to interrupt the information to his followers and at last put an finish to the long-running hypothesis about his future on the present and its quite a few spin-offs.
“I simply wish to attain out and allow you to know that after this lengthy 12 months and a half of engaged on Horizon and doing all of the issues that is required, and excited about Yellowstone, that beloved sequence that I like and I do know you’re keen on, I simply realized that I’m not going to have the ability to proceed Season 5B or into the long run,” Costner pronounces within the video. “It was one thing that basically modified me. I cherished it, and I do know you really liked it. And I simply wished to let you understand that I will not be returning. I like the connection that we have been capable of develop, and I’ll see you on the motion pictures.”
Yellowstone chronicles the lives of the Dutton household, led by patriarch cowboy John Dutton, who controls the biggest contiguous cattle ranch within the United States. Drama and political intrigue ensue because the ranch faces battle with these it borders — an increasing city, an Indian reservation, and America’s first nationwide park.
The sequence first premiered in 2018 and shortly grew to become a runaway hit, and it has managed to keep up its recognition as folks discovered themselves invested within the Dutton household saga. The fifth season broke a number of data, with its first episode accruing 12.1 million viewers to develop into the highest scripted sequence premiere of 2022.
Paramount introduced final November that it had pushed again the discharge date for the ultimate episodes of Yellowstone to November 2024 as a result of SAG-AFTRA strike, and questions on Costner’s future on the sequence continued to swirl as scheduling points reportedly arose from his two-part Western epic Horizon: An American Saga.
Production for the ultimate episodes of Yellowstone started final month in Montana, whereas work can also be underway on two spin-offs with the working titles of 1944 (a prequel) and 2024 (a sequel).
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