Kevin Costner Debuts Sweeping ‘Horizon’ Footage at CinemaCon, Hopes Audiences Will ‘Binge’ Multi-Part Western in Theaters
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor “Horizon: An American Saga,” Kevin Costner‘s wildly ambitious, sprawling, risky and quite possibly foolhardy two-part Western rode into CinemaCon on Tuesday.
The films, which will premiere this summer, were partially financed by Costner, who mortgaged his ranch to help raise the money for the $100 million epic. “Hopefully the people come and they keep coming and they binge your theaters,” Costner told cinema operators at Warner Bros.
presentation. “There’s something in me that wanted to make this movie, and I never make one that I think won’t blow up.” And he hinted he’s not done yet, revealing there are even more chapters on, well, the horizon.
No matter how the final film ends up, Costner gets points for sheer persistence. After all, he’s been trying to get the film off the ground for decades, starting in 1988 and then trying to shoot it again in 2003 without success. “In 2012, I decided to write four more of the one I couldn’t make,” he said.
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