Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga will be released in two chapters during the summer of 2024, with Chapter One debuting on June 28 and Chapter Two on August 16.
Costner stars in the Western, which he is also directing and co-writing with Jon Baird. Horizon, which is set in the mid-1800s around the time of the Civil War, the film focuses on the struggles of settlers in the American West. It has been described as a “passion project” for Costner, who reportedly pulled away from his involvement in the Yellowstone series to concentrate on it.
Horizon: An American Saga features an all-star cast that includes Jamie Campbell Bower, Thomas Haden Church, Owen Crow Shoe, Jeff Fahey, Isabelle Fuhrman, Ella Hunt, Danny Huston, Jena Malone, Tatanka Means, Sienna Miller, Michael Rooker, and Sam Worthington, among others. The film is being produced by Costner, Howard Kaplan, and Mark Gillard.
According to Variety, Costner had originally envisioned Horizon as “four different movies” that would be released every three months. As he told the paper last year: “They’re all different films that all connect, so you’re watching a saga of these storylines that are happening.”
“It’s a beautiful story; it’s a hard story,” Costner had earlier been quoted as saying. “It involves women trying to get by in a world that was impossibly tough. They were often [dragged] out to these places because that’s where the men wanted to go; women were following their men. They didn’t ask to be in these territories that were unsettled and dangerous, and life wasn’t easy.
I’ve chosen to make sure that was really obvious, that that wasn’t easy, and how vulnerable people were.
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This would be the fourth film directed by Costner. His 1990 movie Dances With Wolves won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
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