Taylor Sheridan’s hit Yellowstone will likely not be ending with Season 5. Deadline has confirmed that negotiations are underway for a sixth season of the flagship drama to be headlined by Yellowstone standouts Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser.
Sources stress that the deals are not done but the intention is for Yellowstone‘s story to continue past Season 5B, which is expected to bid farewell to its original lead character, Kevin Costner’s John Dutton. (Costner has confirmed that he won’t appear in the upcoming episodes.)
While Season 5B was originally announced as Yellowstone‘s last installment, when the teaser for its Nov. 10 premiere date was unveiled in June, it did not label the new episodes as the saga’s final chapter. (You can see it below.)
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Meanwhile, Reilly and Hauser had been negotiating new deals for months, initially thought to be for a Yellowstone offshoot. The franchise’s first contemporary spinoff, The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, is slated to follow Season 5B of the mothership series.
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Yellowstone has chronicled the Dutton family who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States. Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds, and hard-earned respect – the ranch is in constant conflict with those it borders – an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and America’s first national park.
Reilly plays Beth Dutton, the daughter of John Dutton (Costner), a former head of acquisitions at Schwartz & Meyer financial firm. Hauser plays jaded ranch foreman Rip Wheeler, who first came to John Dutton as a young boy who was on the run after killing his stepfather to protect his mother. John treated him like a son and taught him to be a cowboy.
Executive producers include Sheridan, Costner, John Linson, Art Linson, David C. Glasser, Bob Yari, Stephen Kay, Michael Friedman, Christina Voros and Keith Cox. The Paramount Network series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
The news of the potential Season 6 of Yellowstone was first reported by Puck.