Kevin Costner has introduced that he is not going to be returning to Yellowstone, confirming long-running hypothesis that he’s completed with Taylor Sheridan’s hit Western collection.
The 69-year-old actor posted a video on Instagram on Thursday by which he stated he was now targeted on making Horizon: An American Saga, his collection of Western movies, the primary a part of which premiered at this yr’s Cannes movie competition.
“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’s required,” Costner stated. “Fascinated with Yellowstone, that beloved collection that I really like, that I do know you like. I simply realized that I’m not going to have the ability to proceed, season 5 or into the longer term.”
Costner stated that Yellowstone “was one thing that basically modified me”.
“I beloved it and I do know you really liked it. I simply wished to let you understand that I received’t be returning,” he stated. “I really like the relationships that I’ve been in a position to develop. And I’ll see you on the films.”
Costner performs the patriarch cowboy John Dutton in Yellowstone, which has been an enormous hit and made Costner one of many highest-paid actors in tv. It has additionally spawned two prequel collection: 1883, starring Sam Elliott, and 1923, starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.
Yellowstone is at the moment in its fifth and remaining season, however the present has been on hiatus since 2022. Solely eight of the 14 episodes have aired, with delays attributed to the Hollywood strikes and stories of pressure between Costner and the present’s producers over his resolution to give attention to making his movies.
Costner has variously spoken of his plans to return to Yellowstone and distanced himself from it. Throughout his divorce listening to final yr, Costner instructed the courtroom he might sue the present’s producers over unpaid wage, claiming he was owed $12m for the second half of season 5 that he had not but acquired because of the delays in manufacturing, due to a “pay or play” clause in his contract.
“I’ll in all probability go to courtroom over it,” he stated, calling it a “lengthy, hard-fought negotiation” with the present’s community, Paramount.
Costner additionally claimed he signed a contract to look in a sixth and seventh season, however “I couldn’t assist them any extra. We tried to barter, they provided me much less cash than earlier seasons [and] there have been points with the inventive.”
He disputed stories that he had demanded fewer capturing days on Yellowstone to make Horizon, telling Deadline: “I’ve taken a beating from these fucking guys … I made Yellowstone the primary precedence, and to insinuate the rest could be improper.”
Paramount has beforehand declined to remark about something to do with the negotiations.
Yellowstone’s creator, Sheridan, has beforehand stated he could be “disenchanted” by Costner’s doubtless departure, saying: “It truncates the closure of his character. It doesn’t alter it, however it truncates it.”
Costner has just lately recommended he would contemplate coming again, nevertheless. Simply days in the past, he instructed the Right now present that he return “below the suitable circumstances”, including: “Saying there’s an opportunity, there’s at all times an opportunity. I really like the factor. You’ve received to be actually clear about that.”
The actor has targeted his vitality and private wealth on his Horizon movies, which he’s directing, co-writing, producing and starring in. The primary Horizon movie price $100m to make, with Costner placing in $38m of his personal cash to fund it. The second movie is due out on 16 August.
The ultimate six episodes of Yellowstone are at the moment in manufacturing and can air in November.
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