Word on the street is that it’s highly likely Kevin Costner won’t return for the final episodes of Yellowstone. Due to the reported drama between the John Dutton actor and the modern Western’s creator Taylor Sheridan, there have been many claims that point to the idea that the patriarch of the Yellowstone will leave. So, that leaves us with the question: How will they write the leading man out of this hit show? Well, there’s a popular fan theory floating around the internet, and I have to say, I’m 100% on board with it.
At the time of this writing, Season 5B of Yellowstone will premiere late on the 2024 TV schedule, and it has not been officially confirmed or denied if Kevin Costner will be returning as John Dutton. It seems more likely that he won’t be back considering the allegedly heated contract negotiations he was in and the fact that his films Horizon: An American Saga are set to premiere on the 2024 movie schedule. This is where ScreenRant’s fan theory about how the Yellowstone patriarch could be written off the show comes in, and it involves an integral, but dropped, plot point from the early seasons.
