Yellowstone star Kevin Costner will return to the Western style together with his movie collection Horizon: An American Saga, the primary a part of which is ready to reach in theaters June 28. The primary movie in a deliberate four-arc installment premiered on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant to an 11-minute 40-second standing ovation, which introduced the actor to tears.
Costner, who stars in and directs the Western installments, has been wanting to deliver this challenge to the display since 1988 when he began dreaming it up. He cowrote it with Jon Baird. The Dances With Wolves star revealed that manufacturing has begun for the third movie and that he has plans to make a fourth. The second a part of the collection will comply with the primary with a theatrical launch this summer time.
Learn on for all the things we learn about Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga:
What’s Horizon: An American Saga about?
The Western movies will chronicle the growth of the American West earlier than and after the Civil Battle. Views of colonizers and Native People — particularly within the fourth movie — will intertwine to inform the complicated historical past. Spanning 15 years following the tip of one in every of America’s defining conflicts, it traces the strain of one other — Manifest Future and Native People.
What number of movies make up Horizon: An American Saga?
The solid has largely been uncovered to 4 scripts for 4 completely different feature-length chapters of the challenge. The primary two movies have obtained theatrical launch dates by way of New Line and Warner Bros. The movies following Chapter 1 usually are not thought-about sequels, however separate installments that inform the full story.
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How lengthy is Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1?
The primary movie clocks in at three hours.
When does Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 come out?
The primary movie arrives on the massive display on June 28.
Who’s in Horizon: An American Saga?
Chapter 1 boasts an spectacular solid together with Luke Wilson, Tatanka Means, Sienna Miller, Jena Malone, Wase Winyan Chief, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jena Malone, Sam Worthington, Isabelle Fuhrman, Ella Hunt, Michael Rooker, Abbey Lee, Danny Huston, Will Patton and extra.
Giovanni Ribisi, Glynn Turman, Tom Payne, Kathleen Quinlan, Angus MacFayden and numerous others additionally pop out and in of the primary movie. There are greater than 170 talking roles.
Costner’s son Hayes additionally seems within the movie, and his namesake is a personality within the story — Hayes Ellison.
When does Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2 come out?
The second movie is slated to hit theaters August 16.
When will Horizon: An American Saga Chapters 3 and 4 come out?
Costner advised Deadline that he has already shot three days of Half 3. He hopes to return to Cannes with the third chapter.
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How a lot has this challenge price?
Costner revealed to Deadline that he’s projected to pay $98 million himself for the primary three movies within the collection. Financing the fourth will make it $100 million. At Cannes he spoke about sacrificing his 4 houses that he owns to make the Western motion pictures.
“I’m attempting to make the third one. I knocked on each boat in Cannes to assist me,” he mentioned. “The fellows say, ‘C’mon, we’ll get an image.’ I mentioned. ‘No, get your checkbook out.’“