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So, Where Is Kevin Costner in This Season of Yellowstone?
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The problem, of course, is that Sheridan is now the lone writer of multiple series, and writing five bajillion episodes of television a year takes time no matter how good you are at horseback riding. He wanted “veto” power over Yellowstone scripts, he had a “moral death” clause in his contract that wouldn’t let them kill off John Dutton in a way Costner found personally embarrassing, and then he got COVID-19 during production, shrinking his availability yet again. Later, in May, he gave Deadline a bit more detail in an expletive-laden interview full of shady gems like “Writing is really hard, I get it.” When asked if it was Horizon that made him unavailable to finish more of Yellowstone, he was clear: “That’s not true.
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