EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming Season 5 finale of Yellowstone will not be the end of the Dutton clan’s story. Series standouts Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser have inked deals to lead a spinoff series, reprising their roles as Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler, respectively, sources tell Deadline.

Taylor Sheridan, the mastermind behind it Yellowstone and his ever-expanding universe is working on creativity for the new show, which I hear will likely feature other cast members from the Mothership series alongside Reilly and Hauser. Led by Yellowstone Characters played by the same actors in the same time frame, the new spinoff shares the most DNA with the mothership of any previous series in the Yellowstone universe, which explains why it will be the first spinoff to transfer Yellowstone in the title, sources said.

Ahead of Sunday’s Season 5 finale YellowstoneThere has been growing confusion over what will happen next to the characters of the hugely popular drama series who are still alive at the end of the upcoming episode.

As Deadline reported in August, Yellowstone Producers MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios had been negotiating with Reilly and Hauser for months. The two had initially hoped for a spin-off. Over the summer, it emerged that the duo could continue to star Yellowstone Season 6, in which the series continues after the death of its original main character, Kevin Costner’s John Dutton.

This scenario was supported by the fact that Paramount Network, which had originally announced Season 5B as YellowstoneWhen the teaser for the spin-off season was released in June, he quietly dropped that message and instead touted the new episodes as an “epic return” of the saga. Likewise, the advertising for the upcoming final film speaks of a season finale and not a series finale.

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The intention remains to continue the story Yellowstone and a source stated that another season wasn’t completely out of the question, after all the focus was back on making her a new series from what I’ve heard. This would allow Paramount Global, Paramount Network’s parent company, to keep the show within the company’s ecosystem, unlike the mothership series, which already has an exclusive streaming deal with NBCUniversal’s Peacock.

Yellowstone revolves around the Dutton family, who control the largest continuous cattle ranch in the United States. Reilly’s Beth is the daughter of John Dutton (Costner), a former head of acquisitions at the financial firm Schwartz & Meyer. Hauser’s jaded ranch foreman Rip Wheeler, who came to John Dutton as a young boy on the run after killing his stepfather to protect his mother, learned how to be a cowboy from John, who treated him like a son.

Season 5B began with Dutton’s death and chronicled the aftermath, with two other characters – Denim Richards’ Colby and Dawn Olivieri’s Sarah – subsequently killed off. The ranch’s fate hangs in the balance as the new governor pushes ahead with plans to divide and develop the Yellowstone estate – exactly what John Dutton didn’t want. Sunday’s penultimate episode suggested that John’s son Kayce (Luke Grimes) may be hatching a plan to save the property for future generations, prompting Beth (Reilly) to exclaim, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

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Providing confirmation of this Yellowstone Even without Costner, the new episode remains a big crowd-pleaser. The fourth episode, which focused on Colby’s death, drew a record 12.1 million viewers, according to Paramount Network.

Ahead of the season 5 finale, Hauser posted a photo from the final shoot, sparking speculation among fans about who might be left at the end of the episode.

Yellowstone was co-created by Sheridan and John Linson, who executive produce alongside Art Linson, Costner, David C. Glasser, Bob Yari, Stephen Kay, Michael Friedman, Christina Voros and Keith Cox. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

The Yellowstone the franchise’s first contemporary spin-off, The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer is set to follow season 5B of the Mothership series. The prequel series include: 1883 And 1923.

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