Yellowstone Season 5, Part 2 Filming Delay Is Secretly Good For Kevin Costner’s Return & The Show’s Ending

• Yellowstone season 5, part 2’s filming delay due to the strikes might be a blessing in disguise, giving the producers and writers more time to figure out a solution regarding Kevin Costner’s potential return or how to end the series without his character.

• The cast and crew will eventually get to film and finish production on part 2 once the strikes are over, allowing fans to find out what happens to the characters and the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch.

• Kevin Costner’s contract with Yellowstone has already ended, raising doubts about his involvement in the final six episodes. But the filming delay gives both parties time to cool off and potentially come back together to determine the best ending for the show.

Yellowstone season 5, part 2’s filming delay due to the strikes might be a blessing in disguise, giving the producers and writers more time to figure out a solution regarding Kevin Costner’s potential return or how to end the series without his character.

The cast and crew will eventually get to film and finish production on part 2 once the strikes are over, allowing fans to find out what happens to the characters and the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch.

Kevin Costner’s contract with Yellowstone has already ended, raising doubts about his involvement in the final six episodes. But the filming delay gives both parties time to cool off and potentially come back together to determine the best ending for the show.

Yellowstone fans were shocked to learn that Kevin Costner, who played John Dutton in the show, was leaving after the fifth season to focus on starring in and directing a four-movie Western epic. The surprises kept on coming when creator Taylor Sheridan and the Paramount Network announced that the popular contemporary Western drama television series would end with season 5. The slew of news was met with speculations about what was going down between Costner and the show’s producers and rumors of drama and tension behind the scenes. However, all work on the fifth season came to a pause in 2023 thanks to the WGA strike and the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Yellowstone season 5, part 1 has already aired, so fans are waiting patiently for part 2 and the series’ final episodes. Unfortunately, the cast and crew have not begun filming the second part of the season due to the writers and the actors strike. The production is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, a subsidiary of Paramount Global, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the trade association that the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are disputing with. As a result, the Yellowstone cast and crew cannot make season 5, part 2, during the strikes, which might be a good thing for now.