It’s official: Kevin Costner will not be returning Yellowstone.
The actor posted a video to social media on Thursday in which he confirmed long-held speculation that he was done with Paramount+’s monstrous neo-Western drama. Yellowstone.
“I just want to reach out and let you know after this long year and a half of work Horizon and doing whatever it takes,” Costner said at the beginning of the clip, referring to the Western film series Horizon: An American Saga that he was working on “and what he was thinking about Yellowstone, this beloved show that I love and that I know you love. I just realized that I won’t be able to continue the show either in season five or in the future.”
Regarding YellowstoneCostner said the series “was something that really changed me.” “I loved it and I know you loved it and I just wanted to let you know I won’t be coming back. I like the relationship we managed to build. See you at the cinema.”
The second half of the fifth season Yellowstone will return on November 10, although the number of episodes has not yet been announced. There remained hope that Costner, who played patriarch John Dutton on the Taylor Sheridan-created series, would return, although it was highly unlikely he would appear in the fifth season as those episodes are already filming and Costner is busy Horizon.
However, in recent weeks, Costner has repeatedly made statements to the press that he wants to rejoin the project – but only if he likes his character’s final arc.
“I liked the show” Costner said People magazine this week. “I liked the people on the show. I liked what it was about. I love this world… I’ve always felt it… it might be an captivating time to go back and finish the mythology of this contemporary family. And if that happens, I would step in if I agreed with the way it was being done.
Much of Costner’s artistic energy and personal finances were tied to independent sources of financing Horizonan extensive and ambitious series of Western films that he will direct, star in, co-write and produce.
The Oscar-winning director created a four-film series in which, among others, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 will hit theaters on June 28. First Horizon The film cost $100 million to produce before its release, but it was expected to gross $12 million earlier this month. Chapter 1 premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where a tearful Costner witnessed the film receive a four-and-a-half-minute standing ovation.
Horizon is a passion project for Costner, who has poured $38 million of his own fortune into the project to pursue his own vision of the West. A enormous part of the budget was financed by foreign sales, in which rights are sold territorially.
Chapter 2 is coming speedy and is scheduled to hit theaters on August 16 this year. Chapters three and four are currently undated, but Costner revealed it Hollywood reporter that he shot some of them Chapter 3but he needs more resources to realize his vision.
“I don’t want to give up this pile of stuff I have, whether it’s money or not [possessions] — be so significant to me that I can’t think about what I want to do,” Costner said THRScott Feinberg in Cannes, explaining why he put his own money into the film. “I’ll keep enough things for my family to be good. … I wish I had money, I wish I had nice things, but I thought, ‘It’s going to control me if I let It.'”
