Why was John Dutton killed off?
How did we get here?
“And I was okay with that.
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I was okay with it, but it wasnt a trend that could continue for me.”
It was only when the Paramount drama made that impossible that Costner had to make a choice.
“But because both things are contractual, you have to make room for the other thing.”
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I fit [Horizon] into the gaps.
They just kept moving their gaps.”
When Costner’sHorizondid poorly at the box office, the Western legend continued to champion his latest passion project.
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But while Jamie was just spit-balling ideas, Sarah took his thoughts literally.
But,as we see in “Three Fifty-Three,“it was actually more of an execution.
It was a cold-blooded murder but masterfully staged to look like the Dutton patriarch had killed himself.
A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land.
From the get-go, it seems clear to at least Beth that Jamie is somehow involved.
“I’m disappointed,” Sheridan admitted about Costner’s exit.
“It truncates the closure of his character.
It doesn’t alter it, but it truncates it.”
“The absence was part of the ending,” Reilly toldEntertainment Weeklyahead of time.
It was always going to happen, it just unfolded a little differently.”
That’s good news, and it means thatYellowstonecan look to the future instead of stalling in the past.
Grimes felt similarly, noting thatCostner’s absence markedYellowstone’s end.
“That’s always where it was headed is like, what do these kids do?
What does this family do when their rock is gone?”
The good news is thatYellowstone’s ending seemingly hasn’t been hindered by Kevin Costner’s lack of involvement.
John Dutton may be death, but Kevin Costner lives on, and so does the Western itself.
That alone is enough to see the story fade into the sunset.
YellowstoneSeason 5 Part 2 airs Sundays on Paramount connection.
Previous seasons can be streamed on Peacock.
