After a year and a half on ice, Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” is back filming the show’s final season. Paramount Network announced Monday that cameras have started rolling in Montana on the final episodes of “Yellowstone” season 5. The series is scheduled to return to television screens in November.
There was no mention of returning cast members in Paramount’s announcement, only that Sheridan and crew were back at work on the show. The news comes after a tumultuous year and a half for the modern Western drama.
Word broke early last year that the show’s fifth season could be its last with star Kevin Costner. Scheduling conflicts with the actor’s “Horizon” movie project were reported the reason for his departure, although the actor disputes that characterization in a lengthy interview with Deadline Hollywood earlier this year.
“I didn’t do ‘Horizon’ because I was tired of doing ‘Yellowstone’,” Costner said. “That’s a [expletive] story.”
Instead, Costner said he was game to return for the second half of “Yellowstone” season 5 but the scripts weren’t ready to go so production took a pause. He then went to work on “Horizon.”
“Yellowstone” is back in production without Costner and fans will see how the show wraps up this fall.
Paramount confirmed last spring that “Yellowstone” as a whole will end in its current form with the final episodes of the fifth season, which will air on the Paramount Network in November.
“What you read in the end was that I said, ‘Well, look, I’m doing my movie. If you want me to work a week because you want to kill me or whatever else, I can give you a week,’” Costner said. “I really didn’t have that week to give them, but I said, I’ll do that. And then they [spun that] into, I only wanted to work a week.”
The show’s first eight episodes of season 5 run from November 2022 to January 2023. There’s no official word from Paramount on how many episodes the final half of the show will have.
Fans can catch up with the show’s first four seasons and first half of “Yellowstone” season 5 on Peacock.
