Kevin Costner is following within the footsteps of President Teddy Roosevelt, in a extra literal means than you may suppose. He additionally actually can not seem to get away from Yellowstone (no, not that Yellowstone), both. The actor and producer has arrange a follow-up to his first docu-series with Fox Nation celebrating the Nationwide Park — the aptly titled Yellowstone: One-Fifty — with a brand new have a look at how the park got here to be. The present known as Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner and can comply with the actor as he re-traces the 1903 Yosemite expedition of Roosevelt and environmental advocate John Muir, an occasion that resulted within the Nationwide Parks system and the safety and creation of many acres of land.
The primary episode, set to premiere on February 8, 2025, is alleged to kick off the streaming service’s so-called “America 250” marketing campaign, a year-long endeavor to honor the nation’s 250th birthday in 2026. The 2 subsequent episodes will air weekly (per Selection).
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Kevin Costner to Narrate Yellowstone’s a hundred and fiftieth Anniversary Documentary
Yellowstone: One-Fifty can be narrated and hosted by star Kevin Costner.
In line with the official collection description:
“All through the voyage, Costner explores the area’s wealthy Indigenous American legacy, the serendipitous arrival of outsiders in 1850, and the way John Muir developed right into a crusader for our wildest locations. By means of Costner’s perspective, he illuminates the battle waged by Muir as he contended with the intricate politics of useful resource administration and the way Roosevelt’s intervention culminated within the institution of a extra structured Nationwide Park System, the creation of 150 Nationwide Forests, 5 Nationwide Parks, and the preservation and safety of 230 million acres of valuable land.”
What Was So Particular About Teddy Roosevelt’s 1903 Tenting Journey By means of Yellowstone and Yosemite?
Roosevelt’s 1903 tenting journey is the type of factor you’ll, frankly, by no means see a president do anymore. Out within the woods with a information and some extra compatriots (like naturalist and essayist John Burroughs, who wrote in regards to the journey in 1906 for The Atlantic), with no doctor or perhaps a Secret Service agent in sight, Roosevelt noticed many super sights alongside his journey, and apparently advised many an enchanting story, if contemporaneous accounts just like the one above are to be believed.
In an official assertion, Costner had this to say in regards to the mission:
“On occasion, you come throughout a narrative that has that actually particular mixture of parts; it is stranger than fiction and occurs towards all odds. It ends in one thing that legitimately modifications the world for the nice and, most significantly, all of it actually occurred. The story of President Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir’s tenting journey via Yosemite is a type of really particular ones, and I am excited to dig into the subsequent chapter of the preservation of the American frontier.”
Costner additionally government produced the mission due to his manufacturing firm, Territory Movies, which developed the collection alongside Heat Springs Productions. Rod Lake additionally government produced the collection, as did Marc Pierce for Heat Springs Productions.
“Kevin Costner has a novel skill to seize the American expertise and captivate an viewers via his extraordinary storytelling,” defined Fox Nation president Lauren Petterson in an announcement. “With the big success of our first mission collectively, there is no such thing as a filmmaker that higher embodies the spirit of America 250 than Costner.”
Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner premieres on February 8, 2025 on Fox Nation