Kevin Costner shocked "Yellowstone" fans earlier this year by deciding he wanted to quit the series. Now, show creator Taylor Sheridan is breaking his silence to The Hollywood Reporter about "Yellowstone" ending with the upcoming second half of its fifth season and Costner's exit.
00:00Kevin Costner shocked Yellowstone fans earlier this year by deciding he wanted to quit the series.
00:05Now, show creator Taylor Sheridan is breaking his silence to The Hollywood Reporter about Yellowstone ending and Costner's exit.
00:12Sources say Costner is leaving to focus on his longtime passion project, a four-movie saga titled Horizon that he's co-writing, directing, and starring in.
00:21The actor requested to work fewer and fewer days on Yellowstone the last few seasons to focus on his movies, which frustrated producers.
00:28However, one source insists Costner kept waiting on scripts for season 5 and became frustrated that Sheridan was making several other projects instead.
00:36The source says Costner repeatedly blocked out time to shoot Yellowstone, only to see his dates pushed.
00:41Sheridan told THR,
00:43My last conversation with Kevin was that he had this passion project he wanted to direct.
00:47He and the network were arguing about when he could be done with Yellowstone.
00:51I said we can certainly work a schedule toward his preferred exit date, which we did.
00:54While Sheridan says his opinion of Costner as an actor hasn't changed, he is disappointed the star left the show the way he did.
01:01He said,
01:02It truncates the closure of his character.
01:04It doesn't alter it, but it truncates it.
01:06Whether Costner eventually returns to film more scenes to wrap his character is still being discussed.
01:11This was never my plan.
01:14My only plan was to preserve my family's way of life in the land where they make it.
01:20During the THR interview, Sheridan also promised Costner's character John Dutton's exit will be appropriate and respectful,
01:27not something like the TV trope of being killed in an off-screen car crash.
01:31And according to the showrunner, his original ending for Yellowstone is unchanged,
01:35as it's always had John Dutton departing the story before the final episodes.
01:39Sheridan also opened up about Matthew McConaughey being in late-stage negotiations for a Yellowstone follow-up.
01:45Sheridan said of the Oscar-winning actor,
01:46The showrunner hinted that the Yellowstone cast might not move on to the new show,
02:07as Sheridan envisions it as a standalone series in a new location exploring the same themes.
02:12For much more from THR's cover story interview with Taylor Sheridan, head to THR.com.
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