Kevin Costner Will See a Huge Payday if YELLOWSTONE Gets Picked Up for Season 6
There’s been a lot of news surrounding Kevin Costner’s involvement with Taylor Sheridan’s hit neo-western series Yellowstone recently. There are reports of the actor being difficult to work with, all of which Costner denies are true. One thing I can definitely say for certain is there seems to be a lot of miscommunication, and it’s causing tension.
Well, a new report has surfaced from ET Canada in which Puck News' Matthew Belloni offers some additional insight into what’s going on with Costner, some of the demands he’s made, and what’s going on between Costner and Sheridan, and it looks like Costner would see a huge increase in his pay if Season 6 is picked up.
The report says: "The way Yellowstone is shot is that Costner comes to the set for a certain period of time, and he is taking the position that, for anything outside of his contractually obligated time during shooting, he should be paid extra for it. But in Hollywood, it's sort of an unwritten rule that you promote your show or your movie when it comes time to do that."
Belloni added, "Costner was asking for extra money to promote his show and that was seen by producers as a little bit of a money grab for a guy who was paid extraordinarily well for his services."
Kevin Costner is one of the highest-paid actors on TV, with Yellowstone paying him over $1 million per episode. According to the report: “Costner makes about $1.2 million per episode for Yellowstone, and that's in addition to an overall deal that he has which pays him extra money. So he makes more than $20 million a season if it goes 16 episodes, as is planned this season."
It’s then explained, "If Yellowstone is picked up for a 6th season, and Costner is on the show for the 6th season, he will get $1.5 million per episode.”
If there is any truth to this stuff, I hope that all of the parties can work it out. Yellowstone is such a great show and I just want Sheridan to be able to tell the full story that he set out to tell with it.
