‘Yellowstone’ Universe Expands With Offshoot Starring Kelly Reilly & Cole Hauser
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The upcoming Season 5 finale of Yellowstone will not be the end of the Dutton clan’s story. Series standouts Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser have closed deals to lead a spinoff series, reprising their roles as Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler, respectively, sources tell Deadline.
Taylor Sheridan, the mastermind behind Yellowstone and its ever-expanding universe, is working on the creative for the new show, which will likely feature other cast members from the mothership series alongside Reilly and Hauser, I hear.
Led by Yellowstone characters played by the same actors in the same present-day time frame, the new offshoot shares the most DNA with the mothership of any shows in the Yellowstone universe to date, which explains why it will be the first spinoff to carry Yellowstone in the title, sources said.
Ahead of the Sunday Season 5 finale of Yellowstone, there had been growing confusion over what happens next for the characters in the hugely popular drama series who are still alive at the end of the upcoming episode.
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