Kevin Costner has addressed his future on “Yellowstone” whereas doing press for his new Western film “Horizon: An American Saga.”
DENVER — After a 12 months and a half of hypothesis about his involvement, Kevin Costner has formally introduced that he is not going to be returning to “Yellowstone.”
Costner posted a video to social media Thursday evening with the caption “an replace for you guys.”
“Hello everybody, I simply wish to attain out after this lengthy 12 months and a half of engaged on ‘Horizon’ and doing all of the issues that is required, and occupied with ‘Yellowstone,’ that beloved collection that I really like, that I do know you’re keen on,” Costner stated Thursday evening.
“I simply understand that I am not going to have the ability to proceed Season 5-B or into the long run. It was one thing that actually modified me. I beloved it and I do know you really liked it and I simply wished to let that I will not be returning. And I really like the connection that we have been capable of develop and I will see you on the motion pictures.”
Paramount introduced Thursday morning that the ultimate half of the fifth season of “Yellowstone” will return with new episodes on Nov. 10. The neo-Western drama created by Taylor Sheridan, which has starred Costner as John Dutton since its 2018 debut.
The Paramount Community collection final aired a brand new episode in January 2023 earlier than a hiatus as a result of busy schedules of Sheridan and Costner.
An episode rely has but to be introduced for the ultimate episodes of the collection. Manufacturing began on the rest of the ultimate season in Might in Montana.
Costner’s involvement within the new “Yellowstone” episodes had been unclear because the fifth season ended final 12 months. Costner is presently making the rounds selling the primary movie in his four-movie Western epic “Horizon: An American Saga,” which is due out subsequent Friday.
Over the past 12 months and a half, Costner has been busy filming and enhancing “Horizon,” whereas Sheridan has been busy writing and producing a number of “Yellowstone” spinoffs and different tv collection. Their schedules seem to have been too busy to permit for extra seasons of the flagship “Yellowstone” collection.
Costner had instructed a number of information shops whereas selling “Horizon” that he was open to returning to “Yellowstone.”
“I beloved the present,” Costner instructed Individuals this week. “I preferred the individuals on the present. I preferred what it was about. I really like that world … I’ve all the time felt that … It is perhaps an attention-grabbing second to come back again and end the mythology of this modern-day household. And if that occurs, I’d step into it if I agreed with the way it was being finished.”
Costner instructed The Related Press final month that he was open to a return to “Yellowstone” to complete John Dutton’s story.
“‘Yellowstone’ was actually necessary in my life. I actually beloved that world and what we have been capable of do in 5 seasons,” Costner stated. “I solely thought it could be one, however did 5. I used to be keen to do three extra – 5, six and 7 – but it surely simply did not occur.
“Sure issues have been happening and it simply did not occur. So the thought of going again, I am open to that concept. However it’s primarily based on every part that first three or 4 have been primarily based on, which is the scripts.”
Different “Yellowstone” initiatives within the works embody two spinoffs, one among which is a direct sequel titled “2024.” Paramount has additionally introduced the prequel collection “1944” and a second season of “1923,” starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.
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