Despite the odds, Kevin Costner intends to complete his four-film “Horizon” tale, he revealed at a Deadline FYC event this weekend.
The first episode of the ambitious series, which chronicles the narrative of westward expansion in the 1860s with a large cast and great production costs, bombed at the box office last summer, generating $38.2 million on a $50 million budget. The first film’s financial ambitions derailed plans for a theatrical release of Part 2, which is in the works and awaiting distribution, though no plans have been made. And while Costner began filming Part 3 this spring, it appears that he does not yet have the funds to complete it. But he’s working on it—along with Part 4. He’s not about to let “Horizon” fade from view.
“I’m hoping, I’m dreaming, I’m meeting all the billionaires that we all hear about — they’re all hiding in the shadows,” stated actor Kevin Costner.
“I’m going to make [Part 3],” he continued. “I’m not sure how I’m going to accomplish it, but I’m going to do it, and then I’ll make the fourth one. And if you want to say ‘the end’ at that time, that’s it.
“It’s my own private UFO,” Costner added, drawing comparisons to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” in which he played compulsive extraterrestrial seeker Roy Neary. “I’ve seen it, I’ll never forget it, and I chase it for as long as I can.” I’ll figure out how to get you 3 and 4, because you’ve been to 1 and will go to 2, and we’re all going west together.”
Costner famously quit his hit show “Yellowstone” to focus on his big passion project, which marks his first directing effort since “Open Range” in 2003. Part 1 of “Horizon” is now available for streaming on Max. The cast includes Costner, Abbey Lee, Luke Wilson, Sam Worthington, Sienna Miller, and many others.
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