Yellowstone Season 5 premiere: Filming set for Venus, Texas

VENUS, Texas — “Yellowstone” is coming again to North Texas.

Officials with the town of Venus in Johnson County confirmed the favored Western drama is filming a scene on the metropolis’s downtown sq. on Tuesday. 

Venus Mayor James Burgess posted on the Venus Express Facebook group that Yellowstone is coming to Venus, and he requested residents to keep away from driving within the downtown space, as a number of roads will likely be blocked throughout the filming.

Ironically, we simply wrote an inventory of Yellowstone’s Texas connections, particularly these in North Texas, the place the present’s creator, Taylor Sheridan, is from.

Yellowstone has additionally filmed scenes on the Four Sixes Ranch in West Texas, and horses from North Texas have appeared on the present.

Burgess informed WFAA this isn’t the primary large manufacturing that has chosen Venus as their location to shoot, both. Some of the opposite initiatives embrace reveals and movies like Walker Texas Ranger, Bonnie and Clyde, Trip to Bountiful, and Born on the 4th of July. 

Burgess stated the Yellowstone crew has its personal safety, and the Venus Police Department will help with safety and site visitors management.

Season 5 of Yellowstone premieres this Sunday, so it isn’t clear if manufacturing is filming a scene unexpectedly, or if it is re-shooting a scene or if it is behind in manufacturing. 

Burgess stated that wasn’t defined to him, solely that the town was notified that Paramount Network was scouting the town as a attainable location to movie, after which officers have been informed it was chosen as its spot.  

He added that the historic city sq. was chosen as a result of it could cross for a city in Montana. 

“The buildings really add to the square and are historic,” Burgess stated. 

“Everyone is really excited; Yellowstone is very popular right now. I’m a huge fan.” 

The Season 5 trailer of Yellowstone signifies that Kevin Costner’s character ‘John Dutton’ was elected Governor of Montana. 

The scene, per the mayor, entails a podium, a stage, a crowd of about 150 extras and a speech. 

Meaning, it is extremely probably that Costner is perhaps in Venus come Tuesday. 

If that is the case, Burgess stated that will be a deal with.  

“I’m a big Kevin Costner fan, all of his movies,” Burgess stated.

Lots of the storefronts in downtown Venus have already been modified for the scene. Two, on the very least, together with a Mexican restaurant within the sq., have modified their names to seem as if they might be in Montana. 

The mayor stated Paramount was trying for 150 extras for the scene who lived within the space and that at the very least 500 have signed up.

He additionally expects lots of people to spectate and present as much as Venus to catch a glimpse of the filming. 

“I’m just wondering where everyone is going to park,” Burgess stated. 

Venus is a city with a inhabitants of lower than 5,000 and is Southwest of Dallas by about 45 minutes.