Kevin Costner Reportedly Wants To Approve How He’s Written Off ‘Yellowstone’
etcanada.comKevin Costner reportedly will not commit to returning to film the final season of “Yellowstone” until he approves how his role is written off the show.
In what it called an “amusing wrinkle,” Puck News is reporting that the 68-year-old actor wants to feel “comfortable with how his John Dutton character is written out of the franchise” and that he “wants to prevent what Shonda Rhimes did to Patrick Dempsey, killing off the race car-driving “Grey’s Anatomy” star in an F-you car accident.
So [‘Yellowstone’ creator Taylor] Sheridan may not be able to dispose of his Western-loving leading man via a kick from an angry horse.” It’s also being reported that Costner’s relationship with “Yellowstone” producers and network executives have worsened, and Puck News reports that the evidence is in how Paramount handled last week’s announcement — that the series would come to an end after season 5 — without giving its leading man a courtesy heads up.
After ET reported that Costner, who reportedly earns $1.2 million per episode, was set to leave “Yellowstone” after the end of season 5, Paramount Network revealed that the series will end in November, following the release of its remaining episodes.
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