Kevin Costner Gives Final Answer On Whether He’ll Return To ‘Yellowstone’ Shortly After Season 5, Part 2 Premiere Announcement

Less than 24 hours after Paramount Network announced the long-awaited premiere date for the second part of Yellowstone Season 5, Kevin Costner has bid farewell to the show for good.

The actor, who famously played Dutton family patriarch John Dutton, confirmed his permanent exit from Taylor Sheridan‘s hit series in a social media video.

“I just want to reach out and let you know that after this long year and a half of working on Horizon and doing all the things that’s required and thinking about Yellowstone, that beloved series that I love, that I know you love,” he says in the video. “I just realized that I’m not going to be able to continue, Season 5B or into the future.”

Costner adds, “It was something that really changed me. I loved it and I know you loved it, and I just wanted to let you know that I won’t be returning. I love the relationship we’ve been able to develop, and I’ll see you at the movies.”

Costner, of course, has been busy on the press tour for Horizon: An America Saga Chapter 1, the first of his four-part passion project that is coming to theaters June 28.

It’s been known that Costner wouldn’t be returning to Yellowstone Season 5, Part 2 — which is currently filming in Montana and is set to premiere on Nov. 10. However, he didn’t exactly rule out a future appearance in the show during his Horizon press tour.

“It might be an interesting moment to come back and finish the mythology of this modern-day family,” he recently told People. “And if that happens, I would step into it if I agreed with how it was being done.”

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Now that Costner knows he won’t be returning to Yellowstone, he can narrow his focus on Horizon, which follows the expansion of the West in the Civil War era. The second part is slated for an August release, while the third part recently began filming.

“I don’t really fall out of love with things. When I finally decided I was just going to make it, [I said], ‘I’m going to bring the best movie I possibly can, and I’m not gonna fall out of love with it,’” Costner said on Thursday’s (June 20) broadcast of Today With Hoda & Jenna.

He continued, “And suddenly, there were four [installments]. I was really happy that I was able to make them. It didn’t matter how it got made, it’s made.”

Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 premieres in theaters June 28.