Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch shows Beth and Rip battling bad guys as Annette Bening is unrecognizable as the villain
The highly anticipated first teaser for the new Yellowstone spinoff called Dutton Ranch was shared this week.
The clip was action packed as Rip Wheeler, played by Cole Hauser, and Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly - who play a married couple - join forces against bad guns.
The dramatic video opens with a gray dead hand of a buried body popping out from the ground.
Dutton Ranch will follow after the events of the Kevin 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 highly anticipated first teaser for the new Yellowstone spinoff called Dutton Ranch was shared this week
Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly, and Rip Wheeler, played by Cole Hauser, 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
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.'
Also seen was Rip and Beth's son Carter played by Finn Little.
Making their debut were Hollywood veterans Ed Harris and Annette Bening.
Bening plays Beulah Jackson, the cunning owner of a rival ranch who faces off with Beth.
'A legacy is a beautiful thing,' Beth tells Bening's character as they sit in a living room setting. 'But only if it survives.'
Additional stars are Juan Pablo Raba, Jai Courtney, J.R. Villarreal, Marc Menchaca and Natalie Alyn Lind.
The teaser sees Beth and Rip settle down in South Texas after leaving Montana following the sale of dad's massive ranch
Beth and Rip are a married couple who face new enemies in South Texas
Natalie Alyn Lind and Finn Little seen on the new series Dutton Ranch
Dutton Ranch is created by executive producer and showrunner Chad Feehan based on characters created by executive producers Sheridan and John Linson.
Taylor 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.
The original series that started it all, Yellowstone, ended last year but without it's main star, Kevin Costner.
Making her debut is Hollywood veteran Annette Bening who is married to Warren Beatty
Costner's character John Dutton was killed off in a November 2024 episode of the original series amid a falling out with Sheridan.
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 Cutton - said they did not talk to each other amid rumored 'tension.'
'What a day,' Beth says to which Rip replies, 'Welcome to Texas'
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.
The original series that started it all, Yellowstone, ended without it's main star, Kevin Costner, who acrimoniously left the series
'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?''
John Dutton's memory remains alive in the very first episode of the new spin-off Marshals, the new show following his youngest son and former Navy SEAL, Kayce Dutton.
'All those years of door-kicking, you never once mentioned that you're some Montana Rockefeller,' Kayce's pal and former Navy SEAL teammate Pete Calvin (Logan Marshall-Green) told the Kayce, according to People.
'That was the best part about being a SEAL. Being a Dutton didn't matter,' Kayce replied.
