'Yellowstone' Season 5: Kevin Costner teases 'violence' to be big part of John Dutton's story
Over the years, ‘Yellowstone’ has given us a lot of epic dramatic sequences. From Beth’s extraordinary conversation with Jamie to John punching Jamie, there have been several moments that made us realize how amazing the show is. Apart from being filled with drama, another aspect that makes the Paramount show so successful is the action sequences.
There has been no shortage of epic gunfights over the course of the show’s first four seasons. The Dutton family will do everything and anything to save their land from the outsiders, but it seems things are going to get more intense in the upcoming edition of Paramount’s western drama. While making an appearance at the launch of Paramount+ in the UK, ‘Yellowstone’ star Kevin Costner was asked about Season 5 and what kind of things viewers can expect from the upcoming episodes.
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Costner revealed that “violence” will be a huge part of John Dutton’s story because of the dangers he and his family will face in the fifth edition of the show. The star also opened up about John’s state of mind, and how saving his land will lead to a number of major consequences.
“It’s been set up in a sense that there’s so much pressure on what’s coming for his land that he’s going to have to do something, so we’re going to see what he did and does to stay ahead of it, and I think that’s what John Dutton has to do, but the pressures about the land have been, always for this family, [that they’ve] got to hold on to it with a level of violence,” Costner said in an interview with Variety.
The Oscar-winning superstar also noted that his character would be dealing with “modern problems” in the next season and there are a lot of people who want to drag him down. He added, “The walls pressing on [John] are environmentalists, the Native American issues, politicians, the public outcry for more land. So, he’s dealing with really modern problems.”
It seems the upcoming season will be really intense and the Dutton Family might get in trouble while trying to save their land. For the uninitiated, in Season 4, we saw that John was running for Governor this time around and has been announced as one of the main candidates. It will be interesting to see if he wins the election and, if he does, what kind of decisions he’ll take to assure people that their lands won’t be touched.
‘Yellowstone’ is not the only project that Costner is busy with these days. He will also be donning the director’s hat for the first time in nearly 20 years for his upcoming western movie ‘Horizon’ while also producing and starring in it. In a recent interview, he also noted that he wants to split ‘Horizon’ into four movies that come out three months apart.
Season 5 of ‘Yellowstone’ will arrive on Paramount on November 12 and stars Costner, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, Luke Grimes, and Wes Bentley in pivotal roles.