Kevin Costner is bringing nature’s magnificence into the highlight within the upcoming three-part sequence Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner.
Following the success of his 2022 docuseries Yellowstone: One-Fifty, during which he explored the origin of Yellowstone Nationwide Park, the actor, 70, has teamed up once more with Fox Nation to hint the footsteps of the 1903 Yosemite expedition of Former President Theodore Roosevelt and environmental advocate John Muir. This expedition helped acquire federal protection for Yosemite.
Forward of the discharge of the primary episode on Saturday, Feb. 8, PEOPLE has the unique premiere of the present’s trailer.
“Have you ever ever heard the expression that typically the reality is stranger than fiction? I believe that is a kind of tales,” Costner says in a voice-over as clips of the nationwide park seem on the display screen.
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“Roosevelt was a person of motion. It was a second in time that modified America ceaselessly. It was a bit of paper that stated, ‘wipe them out in the event that they get in your approach,’ ” he later provides. “I got here by way of a tunnel and noticed possibly essentially the most lovely place I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“They did not got down to change America, however that is what ended up occurring,” says Costoner.
In line with a press release, followers can anticipate the present to function “visuals of the geology, wildlife of Glacier Level to El Capitan, Yosemite Falls and extra.”
The sequence finds Costoner exploring 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.”
“Via Costner’s perspective, he illuminates the wrestle 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,” the press launch provides.
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Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner premieres Saturday, Feb. 8 on Fox Nation.