'Yellowstone' Just Said Goodbye To Kevin Costner's John Dutton, But How?

John Dutton (Kevin Costner) on a fence post in the 'Yellowstone' episode "Enemies By Monday."

Editor's note: The below contains major spoilers for Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 9.Well, we've been waiting nearly two years now for Yellowstone to return and finish off its fifth and final season, but with the advanced news of Kevin Costner's premature exit from the series, many fans have wondered what the show would do with John Dutton.

&#x2715 Remove Ads So John Dutton didn't kill himself. More than likely, he put up some kind of fight before being executed, but right now, we don't know all the details. And frankly, they don't matter. John Dutton is dead. Taylor Sheridan has ushered Yellowstone, both as a standalone series and as the flagship narrative in a larger Yellowstone Universe, into a new age — and there's no going back.

&#x2715 Remove Ads Why Didn't Kevin Costner Return for the Rest of 'Yellowstone' Season 5? Close But why didn't Kevin Costner return for the back half of Yellowstone's fifth and supposedly final season? Well, it's a bit complicated. After multiple production delays, Yellowstone was beginning to interfere with Costner's multi-film epic Western series, Horizon: An American Saga.

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