Kevin Costner Reportedly Wants to Approve How He's Written Off 'Yellowstone'

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Kevin Costner reportedly will not commit to returning to film the final season of  until he approves how his role is written off the show.In what it called an «amusing wrinkle,» is reporting that the 68-year-old actor wants to feel «comfortable with how his John Dutton character is written out of the franchise» and that he «wants to prevent what Shonda Rhimes did to Patrick Dempsey, killing off the race car-driving  star in an F-you car accident.

So [ creator Taylor] Sheridan may not be able to dispose of his Western-loving leading man via a kick from an angry horse.»It's also being reported that Costner's relationship with producers and network executives have worsened, and  reports that the evidence is in how Paramount handled last week's announcement — that the series would come to an end after season 5 — without giving its leading man a courtesy heads up.After ET reported that Costner, who reportedly earns $1.2 million per episode, was set to leave  after the end of season 5, Paramount Network revealed that the series will end in November, following the release of its remaining episodes.

The explosive first half of season 5 of  came to end on New Year's Day, with the second half of season 5 initially slated to return in June.But those plans fell apart amid alleged drama between Costner and Sheridan over the actor's filming commitments to the remaining episodes of the current season.

With the show's fate seemingly in shambles, there was growing frustration on whether the cast and crew would ever return to Montana to finish shooting the rest of season 5.