Yellowstone Season 5B is arriving in November, however Costner will not be concerned.

John Dutton will not be getting his grand Yellowstone ending in spite of everything. On Thursday, Paramount Community introduced that the second half of Yellowstone’s fifth season is lastly going to premiere on November tenth. A couple of hours later, nevertheless, Kevin Costner took to social media to verify that he is not going to be returning to the hit collection. There was lots of hypothesis concerning Costner’s potential involvement, however this video from the star himself seems like the ultimate phrase on the matter.

“Hello, everybody. I simply wish to attain out and allow you to know that after this lengthy yr and a half of engaged on Horizon, and doing all of the issues that that is required, and eager about Yellowstone, that beloved collection that I really like and I do know you like. I simply realized that I am not going to have the ability to proceed Season 5, or into the longer term,” Costner says within the video. “It was one thing that basically modified me. I liked it and I do know you liked it. And I simply needed to let you understand that I will not be returning. I really like the connection that we have been in a position to develop, and I will see you on the motion pictures.”

There have been a ton of delays concerning these ultimate episodes of Yellowstone Season 5, in addition to the potential way forward for the Taylor Sheridan collection. Season 5 has been reported to be the top of the present, with a sequel collection selecting up the place it leaves off with Matthew McConaughey and Michelle Pfeiffer within the lead roles.

So lots of the questions, although, have revolved round Costner’s involvement. It was his work as Yellowstone‘s lead character that helped make it such an enormous phenomenon within the first place. Preliminary rumors about him not returning for Season 5B urged that Costner did not wish to work the hours he was requested to work, and that he had put his new Western movie collection, Horizon: An American Saga, forward of Yellowstone tasks. This summer season, forward of Horizon‘s premiere at Cannes, Costner himself set the document straight, saying that he confirmed up however Sheridan’s scripts weren’t prepared, so manufacturing could not start.

“I made a contract for seasons 5, six and 7,” Costner instructed Deadline. “In February, after a two- or three-month negotiation, they made one other contract. 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 in a position to make these. Horizon was set within the center, however Yellowstone was first place. I match [Horizon] into the gaps. They only stored shifting their gaps.”

With out Costner returning to Yellowstone, Sheridan might want to determine methods to write John Dutton off of the collection, which doesn’t seem to be a simple activity.