'Yellowstone' Scripts For Final Season Were More Secretive Than the MCU, Director Reveals

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Yellowstone‘s upcoming final episodes are premiering very soon! Leading up to the fifth season’s return, director Christina Voros opened up about the secrecy around the show’s scripts, with some saying it was even more secretive than Marvel. Keep reading to find out more… “We have some people in the crew who worked in the Marvel universe, and they thought what we were doing was crazy,” she told THR. “Really, it was all borne out of protecting what Taylor [Sheridan] and this cast and this family of creators has built over the years, and knowing how much anticipation there was for these scripts.

The energy around it was more about protecting it for the audience than it was some clandestine thing, and we went to great, great lengths,” she added. “We didn’t have a script coordinator; I took over that role and did the redactions for every cast member.

Most of the cast only got the scenes they were in. So for a large portion of the cast, even for some of our seven-year veterans, they will be learning what happens when the show premieres.” Christina also revealed how they kept everything so secretive on set. “In a strange way, we likened it to COVID protocols.

What you don’t have access to won’t make you informed. So it was a tricky process because you can’t just give someone their lines — there’s information their character may have learned in other scenes,” Christina said. “There was a certain amount of art that went into strategizing what information people had to be able to embody their characters, and know what their characters know without opening up any of the more sensitive material to people who didn’t need to know it.