Yellowstone has been filming in Montana for the past month with several scenes being shot in Missoula.
And several of the cast members have come back to reprise their roles to wrap up season five of the hit series which has a return date of November 10, 2024.
DailyMail.com can tell you who has been seen on set.
Ryan Bingham, Jen Landon (with her hair pink again) and Jake Ream – who play ranch hands Walker, Teeter and Jake, respectively, on the show – have been seen filming scenes together.
Ian Bohen, who plays Ryan (the love interest of Lainey Wilson’s Abby), was spotted on set while riding a horse.
Denim Richards, who stars as Colby, said his return to the Yellowstone set was ‘meaningful.’
Also in Montana is Cole Hauser who plays Rip Wheeler, Forrie J Smith who plays Lloyd Pierce and Finn Little who plays Rip’s son Carter. Finn was seen celebrating his 18th birthday on set.
And Luke Grimes has already confirmed he is joining the new shoot in Montana, where he already owns a home.
Brecken Merrill, who plays the son of Luke Grimes’ Kayce Dutton and Kelsey Asbille’s Monica Dutton, is also on set shooting scenes, though Luke and Kelsey have not been spied yet.
Brecken, 16, shared a photo of a director’s chair that said Yellowstone on the back with a cowboy hat hanging off of it.
‘It’s a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it,’ wrote Merrill in his caption. And last week he added, ‘November premiere date – put it in your calendar and start planning the viewing party.’
Gil Birmingham, who stars as Tribal Chairman Thomas Rainwater, will also be filming along with Mo Brings Plenty.
Wendy Moniz, who played the Governor of Montana, is also shootings scenes.
Scenes were shot at a home on East Beckwith and Gerald Avenue in Missoula, DailyMail.com has learned.
There has also been filming at the Chief Joseph Ranch. The 2,500-acre working cattle ranch in Darby, Montana serves as the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch in the show.
Many of the actors have been seen practicing lassoing and riding at Chief Joseph Ranch.
Hauser has already shared photos from Montana where he has been filming the modern Western series since late May: ‘Good morning Montana, I’ve missed ya old friend! If you are going to rise, you might as well shine.’
Smith, who plays a cattle hand on the show, is also back filming more scenes alongside Hauser and Bingham. He confirmed his return months ago.
Wes Bentley and Kelly Reilly are also expected to be in the last few episodes of season five, but not Kevin Costner, who has said recently he will not film any more scenes.
It is not yet known if Ryan’s new wife Hassie Harrison, who plays barrel racer Laramie on the show, will have any scenes.
Lainey Wilson has said that she is not sure if she is going back to Yellowstone, where she played musician Abby. Her music was also used on the series.
Wilson has said many times she would love to shoot more scenes for the series.
Piper Perabo shared images from Montana earlier in June suggesting she will return as Costner’s love interest Summer Higgins.
But because Costner will not be shooting any more scenes for the show, it is likely Perabo won’t either.
Or she may just be accompanying her husband Stephen Kay, who is a writer on the show.
The popular series will return on November 10, 2024.
Paramount Network announced on June 20 that Yellowstone will make its much-anticipated return on Sunday, November 10 at 8pm ET/PT.
Internationally, Yellowstone will premiere on Paramount+ in Canada on November 10th, the U.K. on November 11th and in Latin America, Brazil and France later in November.
Yellowstone chronicles the Dutton family who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States.
Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds, and hard-earned respect – the ranch is in constant conflict with those it borders – an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and America’s first national park.
Yellowstone is co-created by Sheridan and John Linson.
In May Costner shared some insights into his role on the show to GQ.
The Oscar-winning star maintained that he told creator Sheridan he would help end the series, but no scripts have ever come his way.
And Costner also said that he and Taylor have a ‘private’ reason for not going forward, hinting they have disagreements over how the show should end.
But the star, who is promoting his new movie Horizon, said that he wants to help end the Dutton saga for the sake of the ‘audience.’
Just hours after Kevin’s GQ interview surfaced, Paramount Network announced that Yellowstone had already started production on the end of season five and was currently filming in Montana.
On the show, Costner plays John Dutton III, who fights to save his ranch; he has been compared to a Godfather character because he uses murder to keep his businesses and family together.
The show needs an ending, but there has been talk that Kevin was too busy or wanted too much money or wanted too much say to get it done.
He has told GQ that he has tried. ‘That’s kind of my Western ethic,’ he said. ‘I’ve been quiet about the whole thing and I’ve taken a beating out there. My castmates are confused. The crew was confused.’
He shared that he only did Horizon because he wanted to work more, and he felt he could do Horizon and Yellowstone at the same time. ‘I’ve always wanted to do this movie,’ Costner said, ‘and I was doing Yellowstone. I love Yellowstone.’
Costner said he was so committed to Yellowstone that he renegotiated from his original three-season deal for as many as seven total seasons.
But there were delays from COVID, the writers’ strike, and ‘further disagreements about scheduling,’ said GQ.
‘We very rarely started when we said we would and we didn’t finish when we said we would,’ said Costner. ‘And I was okay with that. I really was. I was okay with it, but it wasn’t a trend that could continue for me.’
So he worked on Horizon. Then Yellowstone proposed splitting the fifth season of the show into two parts. ‘And their big plan was to suddenly do eight now and then in the fall do eight more,’ Costner said.
‘I said, “I have a contract to do Horizon, and I have people and money.” I think there was a belief that I couldn’t get it mounted, but I didn’t really care what anybody believed.’
According to Costner, he tried to help end season five. But, he said, ‘the scripts never came. They still haven’t shot it. As far as I know. The scripts never came. And so then at one point they said to me that we don’t have an ending or anything.’
Costner then offered: ‘I said, “Well, if you want to kill me, if you want to do something like that,” I said, “I have a week before I start. I’ll do what you want to do.”‘
A spokesperson for Paramount Network refuted Costner’s account of this conversation, said GQ.
They negotiated more, and then he had only a week before he had to do Horizon.
‘Somebody picked up the idea that I only wanted to work one week,’ said Kevin.
‘And that has been a carryover thing that I have seen in magazines: that I’ve only wanted to work one week.’
Now he has been depicted as the person who is holding back the end of Yellowstone.
‘My big disappointment is I never heard Paramount or 101 really come to my defense and say, “That’s not true. He was going to do three more seasons.”‘
He added: ‘I started off only giving three seasons, ended up doing five and got embroiled in a thing that I don’t feel one person over there ever told the story correctly, ever, about what I had done and what I’ve been willing to do.’ Costner said that he thought that for Sheridan, Paramount, and 101 Studios, who were in the midst of developing several other Yellowstone spin-offs and originals, ‘other shows became more important.’ And he was okay with that. But he wished the story had been told differently, publicly. ‘That’s really f***ing bothered me, that none of them would actually try to set the record straight.’