Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch honors Kevin Costner’s character after his brutal murder
The new teaser from the Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch gave a nod to Kevin Costner‘s character John Dutton.
John’s daughter Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly, is with her husband Rip Wheeler, played by Cole Hauser, at the dinner table when John is referenced.
They both get emotional when they look at a childhood photo of the patriarch that is placed next to his old brown cowboy hat.
‘I miss him,’ Beth says as she looks morose. ‘We brought the best part of your father with us,’ Rip adds.
Then the clip shows plenty of action like a bar fight and a ranch on fire.
‘I need you ready for the hard parts ’cause they’re coming,’ Beth tells her adopted son Carter, played by Finn Little. He replies, ‘Sounds like fun.’
The new teaser from the Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch gave a nod to Kevin Costner’s character John Dutton
There was a nod to Kevin Costner’s character John Dutton, seen here on Yellowstone
John’s daughter Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly, is with her husband Rip Wheeler, played by Cole Hauser, both get emotional when they look at an old photo of John that is placed next to his old brown hat
Annette Bening, who plays Beulah Jackson, the cunning owner of a rival ranch, is also seen facing off with Beth.
‘Rio Palo is a bit more complicated,’ she says. But then Beth gives Bening’s tough cowgirl a warning: ‘Legacy is a beautiful thing, but only if it survives.’
Dutton Ranch will follow after the events of the Costner flagship series Yellowstone which ended in December 2024.
The premiere date for the new Paramount+ series, which has nine episodes, is May 15. After its two-episode premiere, the series will air one new episode each week.
The teaser sees Beth and Rip settle down in South Texas after leaving Montana following the sale of dad’s massive ranch.
Rip finds a dead body buried on the couple’s new 7000-acre ranch. Next there is a messy fistfight then Beth is seen with a gun in hand. The problem stems from a rival ranch
‘What a day,’ Beth says to which Rip replies, ‘Welcome to Texas.’
Additional stars are Juan Pablo Raba, Jai Courtney, J.R. Villarreal, Marc Menchaca and Natalie Alyn Lind.
‘I miss him,’ Beth says as she looked morose. ‘We brought the best part of your father with us,’ Rip adds
The couple seen in Yellowstone, the flagship series that ended in December 2024
The premiere date for the new Paramount+ series, which has nine episodes, is May 15. After its two-episode premiere, the series will air one new episode each week
Beth and Rip are a married couple who face new enemies in South Texas
Dutton Ranch is created by executive producer and showrunner Chad Feehan based on characters created by executive producers Taylor Sheridan and John Linson.
Sheridan’s Yellowstone franchise includes two prequel series, 1883 and 1923, as well as sequel series The Madison, which stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Adams and Matthew Fox, and Marshalls, starring Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton.
Costner was abruptly written off the show when he acrimoniously exited over scheduling conflicts with his Western movie franchise Horizon.
The show continued for another month before Yellowstone wrapped, ending with its fifth and final season.
For another month after Costner’s exit from the series, star Luke Grimes – who played Costner’s son Kayce Dutton – said they did not talk to each other amid rumored ‘tension.’
Making her debut is Hollywood veteran Annette Bening who is married to Warren Beatty
Reilly seen left with newcomer Ed Harris
J.R. Villarreal as Azul with Reilly and Hauser
Juan Pablo Raba as Joaquin with a bandaged hand
‘I haven’t talked to him since,’ he told Men’s Health in December 2024. ‘It’s not a case of any hard feelings or anything; it’s just, he’s Kevin Costner.’
Laughing, he added: ‘He’s a big deal. I do have his phone number — I just don’t feel like it’s my place to reach out. He can reach out to me if he wants to.’
‘None of us saw it coming the way it did, and obviously there was news about possible blowups behind the scenes or whatever,’ he continued.
‘But just, like, in life, man, these things happen. They happen fast and they’re not predictable.’
Grimes compared Costner’s sudden exit to how he couldn’t have anticipated his father’s death many years ago.
He added: ‘I lost my father a few years ago. It happened fast, and it was not the way that you would think that that would happen. In life, these things happen and then people have to start making decisions. And in our little Yellowstone world, that helped ramp the show up into a boil.’
At the time, he said that Costner’s decision not to return after nearly eight years instilled a ‘finality’ to Yellowstone.
‘Him not coming back felt like, ‘Okay, we’re going to have to land this plane now for real,’ he told People in November 2024.
‘I think the patriarch leaving was always going to be part of the story. That’s always where it was headed, like, ‘What do these kids do? What does this family do when their rock is gone?”
