New rumors about “Yellowstone” say that Kevin Costner almost returned to the Paramount+ series. However, one of the actor’s demands reportedly went too far.
Yellowstone: Kevin Costner played the role of John Dutton until the first half of Season 5. (Source: Image Source: Paramount / © 2022 Spike Cable Networks Inc. All Rights Reserved)
- New details about the drama surrounding “Yellowstone,” Taylor Sheridan and Kevin Costner have come to light.
- Kevin Costner is said to have been negotiating with Sheridan over a potential return to the series this summer.
- However, the negotiations allegedly failed because of the veto power that Costner wanted for all scripts.
The drama surrounding the series “Yellowstone” never ends. The Paramount+ series has been canceled after lead actor Kevin Costner left the series. The reason for this was that Costner was no longer interested in the series and had given far too little time to filming the second half of season 5.
Costner himself criticized series creator Taylor Sheridan and Paramount’s approach to splitting the series into two parts and threatened to sue Paramount during his current divorce proceedings, in which his involvement in the series was also an issue. But now there are new reports about why Sheridan and Costner simply couldn’t agree on what to do with the fifth season of “Yellowstone.”
Costner wanted to do Season 5B, but Sheridan wouldn’t give him veto power over the scripts Yellowstone: John III Dutton decides how he dies. (Source: Paramount+)
The US magazine Puck (via TVLine) now reports that the scripts for the second part of the fifth season of “Yellowstone” were completed before the Writers Guild of America strike – without Kevin Costner’s character John Dutton. However, Costner’s representatives are said to have later expressed the wish that, after the strike, Costner would now like to appear in part 5B and even in a potential 6th and 7th season.
At the beginning of July, Sheridan and Costner were said to have spoken on the phone about Costner’s possible return, but the Hollywood star had a few demands: more money, fewer days of filming, the right to review every script and veto rights over all scripts. The latter was not an option for Sheridan. The series creator writes all of the scripts himself. Costner’s representatives have not yet commented on these claims.
But even if John Dutton dies in Season 5B, Costner has to approve how he does it. Because Puck also reveals that Costner’s contract has a special “moral death clause” that gives Costner the right to decide in which way John Dutton can die and in which way he cannot. So it remains exciting.
First of all, the spin-off “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” from the “Yellowstone” universe awaits you, which starts on November 5, 2023 on Paramount+.
| Rate Yellowstone | |
| genre | Drama, Western |
| First broadcast | June 20, 2018 |
| First broadcast in Germany | May 21, 2018 |
| Homepage | paramountnetwork.com |
| Other sources | |
| network | Paramount Network |
production | Linson Entertainment, 101 Studios, Bosque Ranch Productions, Treehouse Films |
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