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Yellowstone Cast Imagines a World Without Kevin Costner's John Dutton
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is sharing wherever helium stands with Kevin Costner arsenic the occidental comes to an end.
The Paramount Network shocked galore fans erstwhile it announced successful May that the fifth play of the deed show—starring the histrion arsenic Montana cattle rancher John Dutton—will be its last. The quality followed months of rumors that Costner was looking to depart the show. And arsenic Sheridan admits, this wasn't the mode helium saw John Dutton's communicative coming to an end.
"My sentiment of Kevin arsenic an histrion hasn't altered," Sheridan told the Hollywood Reporter in an interrogation published June 21. "His instauration of John Dutton is symbolic and powerful."
He added, "I'm disappointed. It truncates the closure of his character. It doesn't change it, but it truncates it."
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Costner is leaving to absorption connected his ain Western project, a four-movie saga titled Horizon.
"My past speech with Kevin was that helium had this passionateness task helium wanted to direct," Sheridan told the outlet. "He and the web were arguing astir erstwhile helium could beryllium done with Yellowstone. I said, 'We tin surely enactment a docket toward [his preferred exit date],' which we did."
Costner has not commented connected Sheridan's remarks oregon his upcoming exit from the series.
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However, portion its flagship bid is coming to an end, the Yellowstone beingness Sheridan has built lives on. In summation to the prequels 1883 and 1923, the franchise is expanding with a still-untitled nonstop follow-up that will premiere aft play five begins airing precocious this year, a docket that could beryllium delayed owed to the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike.
Meanwhile, Sheridan—who appeared successful shows similar Sons of Anarchy and Veronica Mars earlier going down the camera—is contemplating however Costner's particular Yellowstone ride volition end.
"I don't bash f--k-you car crashes," Sheridan, referring to his Sons of Anarchy character's abrupt demise, told the Hollywood Reporter. "Whether [Dutton's fate] inflates [Costner's] ego oregon insults is collateral harm that I don't origin successful with respect to storytelling."
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