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Kevin Costner in “Horizon: An American Saga”
It’s been 36 years since Kevin Costner started working on “Horizon: An American Saga,” a project that he’s been trying to make for decades. But instead of being discouraged because he couldn’t get funding, Costner decided to spend about $38 million of his own money to finance his passion project, an epic saga that spans four movies.
Jamie Campbell Bower and Kevin Costner in “Horizon: An American Saga”
“Horizon: An American Saga,” Academy Award-winner Kevin Costner’s latest movie that he directed and co-wrote, features a star-studded cast that includes Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jenna Malone, Luke Wilson, Tom Payne, Michael Rooker, Owen Crow Shoe, Tatanka Means and Costner himself.
The Dances With Wolves director’s passion project, which is planned for four chapters – Chapter 1 is opening worldwide on June 28, with Chapter 2 already scheduled for August 16 – has already locked distribution deals in most international markets, a feat that has inspired Costner to push on.
Academy Award-winner Kevin Costner’s latest directorial effort, his passion project “Horizon: An American Saga,” is opening soon in Philippine cinemas, simultaneously with the rest of the world on June 28.
Costner, who wrote and also stars in the film, famously spent some of his own money on the sweeping Western saga. “I have a giant love for my movies and what they can be,” says Costner. “I was interested in the story that I wanted to tell. I put on the hat of being a financier, using my own money, mortgaging my own property, taking that risk to follow my own dream. I think, in a way, that I’m somebody that just had to go west myself, and not know what was out there, and not be afraid of it. And that all the trappings of the things that were good to me were not things I was choosing to protect. I wanted to feed my imagination and expand my possibilities.”
Kevin Costner is back in the director’s chair with “Horizon: An American Saga,” a four-part epic Western featuring a star-studded cast that includes Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, Jena Malone, Jamie Campbell Bower and Luke Wilson. “Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1,” distributed in the Philippines by Parallax Studios and Saga Films Studios, opens in local cinemas simultaneously with the rest of the world on June 28, while Chapter 2 has been scheduled for August 2024.
Costner is no stranger to the Western genre. His directorial debut was 1990’s “Dances with Wolves,” also an epic Western, which won the then first-time director Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards. And since 2018, Costner has top-billed “Yellowstone,” a popular neo-Western drama series that has inspired multiple prequels and spinoff series.
Jamie Campbell Bower and Kevin Costner in “Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1”
Photo credit: Parallax Studios and Saga Film Studios
