Kevin Costner Appears, Dutton Family Civil War

The Dutton family civil war in Yellowstone breaks out into open warfare in the latest trailer for the final season five episodes.

“I can’t do this anymore,” anxious cattle rancher’s daughter Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly, says at one point in the trailer. “Well, you’re gonna have to, honey. Or we’re gonna lose this place,” ranch hand Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) warns her as the Paramount Network drama makes a long-awaiting return after the first five episodes ended in January 2023.

Within the embittered Dutton family, shifting alliances, unsolved murders and open wounds spark bitter confrontations, while the Montana ranchers face threats from an expanding town, an Indian reservation and America’s first national park.

“This war is just beginning,” says Kevin Costner, who is not returning after an exit from the Yellowstone ranch as John Dutton III, and yet appears in the teaser with a clip to likely wrap his character. In a major cast disruption, Costner left the show after the fifth season hiatus for Yellowstone partly to focus on his Horizon film saga.

Facing off against Beth Dutton is Jamie Dutton, played by Wes Bentley, who follows uneasily in his patriarch father’s steps and warns his sister as he throws down the gauntlet to her: “You destroy me, you destroy yourself.”  

There’s a lot to play for. “Old lions die in the jaws of younger lions. And you are the younger lion,” Dawn Olivieri, who plays fixer Sarah Atwood, Jamie Dutton’s love interest, warns him.

The series from co-creators Taylor Sheridan and John Linson will return Sunday, Nov. 10.