Hours after the Paramount Community revealed the return date for the ultimate episodes of Yellowstone, Kevin Costner ended all hypothesis about his potential return by asserting through social media that he, actually, is not coming again.
He launched his video submit on Instagram by saying “An replace for you guys. I’ll see you on the motion pictures.”
“I 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 of the issues that’s required, and eager about Yellowstone, that beloved collection that I really like, that I do know you like, I simply realized that I’m not going to have the ability to proceed Season 5B or into the long run,” he mentioned. “It was one thing that actually modified me. I beloved it. And I do know you liked it. And I simply needed to let you recognize that I received’t be returning and I really like the connection we’ve been capable of develop and I’ll see you on the motion pictures.”
Earlier Thursday, Paramount revealed that the second half of the fifth and remaining season of the Taylor Sheridan collection will premiere Sunday, November 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The announcement made no point out of whether or not Costner’s John Dutton would seem in these remaining episodes; as an alternative, followers needed to hunt down current interviews with Costner to see whether or not he revealed something about returning to the present that helped to revive his profession six years in the past.
And boy, has Costner been saying rather a lot. In a current interview with Folks, the actor expressed disappointment over how none of his former co-stars got here to his protection when the unique narrative surrounding his absence was solely blamed on his rigid filming schedule for Horizon: An American Saga.
“I learn all of the tales,” he mentioned. “I used to be disenchanted that no one on their facet… ever stepped as much as defend what it was I really did for them. There got here a second the place I assumed, ‘Wow, when is anyone going to say one thing about what I’ve performed versus what I haven’t performed?’”
Costner additionally mentioned that he could be open to returning to complete up the Yellowstone saga, but it surely must be underneath sure situations.
“I’ve all the time felt that…It could be an attention-grabbing second to return again and end the mythology of this modern-day household,” he mentioned. “And if that occurs, I might step into it if I agreed with the way it was being performed.”
On June 17, Costner instructed Right now that he hadn’t shut the door on returning to Yellowstone. “Primary, I did it for 5 years, OK, and I need to work greater than annually. We misplaced a complete 12 months at one level and I assumed, ‘Nicely that may’t ever occur once more.’ It was properly over a 12 months.”
And in Might, Costner instructed Deadline’s Mike Fleming that he made a contract to play Dutton for seasons 5, six and 7. He promised to stay round.
“After a two- or three-month negotiation, they made one other contract, he mentioned on the time. “They needed to redo that one, and as an alternative of seasons six and 7, it was 5A and 5B, and perhaps we’ll do six. They weren’t capable of make these. Horizon was set within the center, however Yellowstone was first place. I match [Horizon] into the gaps. They simply saved shifting their gaps.”
Costner went on to say he lived as much as the “fact of the contract.” He mentioned he by no means shot the second half of season 5 as a result of “there was no script. After which issues imploded.”
That implosion occurred round February of 2023, when Deadline broke that Sheridan’s top-rated drama was seeking to finish in a spectacular vogue. The plan was to wrap up Paramount’s signature present in its present kind and plot a franchise extension starring Matthew McConaughey.
Disagreements over Costner’s movie schedule led to the surprising announcement, although Paramount on the time tried to take the sting out of the reveal by saying “Kevin Costner is a giant a part of Yellowstone and we hope that’s the case for a very long time to return. Because of the good thoughts of Taylor Sheridan, we’re all the time engaged on franchise expansions of this unimaginable world he has constructed. Matthew McConaughey is an exceptional expertise with whom we’d like to companion.”
Paramount has but to disclose any extra particulars in regards to the spinoff. It additionally hasn’t mentioned what number of episodes followers can anticipate for the top of Yellowstone.
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