Kevin Costner stars in the new drama Let Him Go, with Diane Lane, about grieving parents who leave their Montana ranch to rescue their grandson after the passing of their adult son.  

5 Things You Need to Know:

  1. The neo-Western drama is produced, written and directed by Thomas Bezucha and is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Larry Watson. 
  2. The Paramount Television series Yellowstone, stars Kevin Costner playing John Dutton, a sixth-generation patriarch of the Dutton family, who controls the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. It was renewed earlier this year for its 4th season.  
  3. The 65-year-old L.A. native has directed three feature films, The Postman, Open Range, and Dances with Wolves for which he won an Academy Award.
  4. Let Him Go is the only wide theatrical release this week, and the veteran actor is concerned about the future of the movie theater business amid the pandemic. "I have to be ‘cause I grew up going to the movies and that was the first place people who were in charge of my life would allow me to go, thinking of it as a quote unquote a safe place," said Costner.
  5. He adds, "It’s where I learned what it was like to kiss a girl and watched how the big guys did it and thought OK, and watched what heroism was about, what loss could be about. A lot of the things in my life I learned going to the theater and I hope that’s not a lost thing for our children."