Beth and Rip Spinoff Series Coming Up

The “Yellowstone” saga isn’t over just yet, as Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser will bring their characters Beth and Rip to a new spinoff of the series, Black has confirmed through sources close to the production.

Reps for Paramount declined to comment.

The news comes just days before the season finale of the fifth season of “Yellowstone,” which has long been speculated to be a series finale since star Kevin Costner left midway through the season. His messy exit led to the latest group of six doour episodes, which focused mainly on the death of his character John.

The idea of ​​Reilly and Hauser shooting more Yellowstone episodes beyond season five was first reported in August when they were courted to helm a sixth season of the Paramount Network series. But a spinoff, which sources say would still include “Yellowstone” in the title, would be a more likely possibility since it would be classified as an entirely new series. That would allow Paramount to keep it within its own streaming ecosystem, while the parent “Yellowstone” series currently airs on the linear Paramount Network but streams on the NBCUniversal service Peacock.

Christina Alexandra Voros, an executive producer on “Yellowstone,” spoke Black about how the final episode of season five will close for fans.

“I think this last batch of episodes is leading us to the end of an era,” she said. “It’s impossible to talk about it in detail without tipping our hat to things to come. But I think (co-creator and writer) Taylor (Sheridan) has managed – and I’m really not sure how he’s done it, I think it’s kind of masterful – to bring the ending to something that feels both shocking and fateful same time. You have to get to the end of the story to fully understand everything that has come before.”

Deadline was the first to report the news.

Additional reporting by Joe Otterson and Ethan Shanfeld.