“Yellowstone” fans finally got their first peek at what the last season of the hit Paramount series will look like following the departure of Kevin Costner from the show.
In a 30-second teaser clip shared by the Paramount network on YouTube, a voice over of Costner can be heard while images of the Dutton family and ranch come across the screen, giving audiences an idea what to expect when the second half of Season 5 comes out in November — two years after the first half of Season 5 debuted, the Hollywood Reporter reported.
“Legacy … we build something worth having, someone’s going to try and take it,” Costner, who played head of family character John Dutton, said.
We then hear Jaime Dutton’s character (played by Wes Bentley) issue a warning to rival sister Beth Dutton (played by Kelly Reilly), “You destroy me, you destroy yourself.”
Reilly’s character replied, “Unlike you, I keep my promises.”
The trailer dropped days after reports surfaced that Reilly and co-star Cole Hauser could be staying on board for another season despite all the reports that the original Dutton story with Costner will end after part 2 of season 5, THR noted. Paramount has yet to respond to the report.
The “Waterworld” star previously told GQ that a scheduling conflict had nothing to do with his departure from the series amid reports that blamed him for halting production on the second half of the season due to filming for his western movie “Horizon: An American Saga-Chapter 1,” followed by the writers’ and actors’ strikes, as previously reported.
“They still haven’t shot it. As far as I know,” the actor said. “The scripts never came. And so then, at one point, they said to me that we don’t have an ending or anything.”
Costner said he offered options for killing off his character so he could make both work, saying, “‘Well, if you want to kill me, if you want to do something like that,’ I said, ‘I have a week before I start. I’ll do what you want to do.’”
The “Dances with Wolves” star said despite everything that has happened, he would be open to returning to the series, Deadline noted.
Paramount released a statement later to Fox News about Costner’s GQ comments and said that “Kevin has been a big part of ‘Yellowstone’s’ success.”
“While we had hoped that we would continue working with him, unfortunately, we could not find a window that worked for him, all the other talent, and our production needs in order to move forward together,” the statement read. “We respect that Kevin has prioritized his new film series and we wish him the best.”
The “Yellowstone” series focuses on the “Dutton family who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States. Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds and hard-earned respect — the ranch is in constant conflict with those it borders — an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and America’s first national park,” THR noted.
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