Kevin Costner's Sour Grapes Over 'Yellowstone' Is Exhausting

By Dustin Rowles | TV | June 20, 2024 |

By Dustin Rowles | TV | June 20, 2024 |

Kevin Costner is everywhere right now. You’d think it’s because the first of his four planned Horizon movies drops next week, but most folks wouldn’t know that. Why? Because nobody really cares about Horizon, which flopped at Cannes. It’s a three-hour slog, with a second chapter coming later this summer, and Costner’s got two more in the pipeline he can’t even find money for yet. Props to the guy for betting on himself, but as a middle-aged white dude who’s supposedly the target audience, I gotta say: Costner’s vision is way too self-indulgent. Hell, I’d probably pass even if Nolan or Tarantino were dropping a three-hour flick and its sequel in one summer, with two more on the way whenever. I’m not gonna make an exception for the Dances with Wolves guy.

It’s like the reporters can smell failure, so all they ask about is his maybe-romance with Jewel (he denies it but calls her a “special lady”) and his Yellowstone drama. That’s all he’s talked about for months. It’s like he blew $38 million of his own cash on this $100 million Horizon thing just to whine about Yellowstone all summer.

Here’s the “Yellowstone” deal, based on his endless Q&As: He loves the show. It wasn’t his fault. He was down for seasons five, six, and seven, but Sheridan split season five, and the shooting schedule went haywire. He’s pissy that nobody from the show’s backed him up (which kinda says it all, doesn’t it?).

“I was disappointed that nobody on their side… ever stepped up to defend what it was I actually did for them. There came a moment where I thought, ‘Wow, when is somebody going to say something about what I have done versus what I haven’t done?’”
Hear that silence, Kevin?

And yeah, he’d totally come back “under the exact right circumstances.”

But let’s get real: It doesn’t matter how many times he tells reporters he’d love to return “under the right circumstances” because it ain’t happening. Nobody’s asked him back because nobody wants him back. Odds are, he was a pain to work with. Sheridan’s probably no picnic either, but he writes the stuff and gets people paid.

Here’s the deal: The final episodes hit in November. They’re shooting now. Costner’s not there. The scripts are done. He’s not in them. It’s over. Let it go, man. All we’re waiting for now is to see how they kill him off.