Kevin Costner shelp on Saturday at Deadline Contfinishers Los Angeles that he’s not giving up on his sprawling four-part Westrict film series, Horizon: An American Saga, whose Chapter 2 was pulled from a intentional August theatrical free after Chapter 1 fell foolishinutive at the box office in July.
“I’m hoping, I’m dreaming, I’m greeting all the billionaires that we all hear about — they’re all hiding in the shadows,” the Horizon straightforwardor, star and co-authorr shelp to chuckleter from the audience proximate the finish of a panel converseion with a trio of collaborators on the movies: cinematographer J. Michael Muro, costume summarizeer Lisa Lovaas and writer John Debney.
From Costner’s Territory Pictures, Horizon labeled a return to the Westrict genre for the star and straightforwardor of 2003’s Open Range and the star, authorr and straightforwardor of 1991 Best Picture Oscar triumphner Dances With Wolves. Chapter 1, the first of four intentional Horizon films Costner co-wrote with Jon Baird, had an emotional premiere in May at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where an 11-minute 40-second standing ovation bcimpolitet Costner to tears.
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Chapter 2 premiered in September at the Vekind Film Festival after its summer theatrical free was postponeed.
Costner — who recently exited the hit TV series Yellowstone after four seasons — has shelp before that production for Chapter 3 is underway. On Saturday he didn’t describe how far aextfinished, but promised, “I’m going to originate 3.”
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“I’m don’t comprehend how I’m going to do it,” he inserted, “but I’m going to originate it and then I’m going to originate the fourth one. And if you want to say ’the finish’ at that point, then that’s the finish.”
Costner appreciatened the project, which he first began slfinisherking about in the tardy 1980s, to pushing the rock of Sisyphus up the mountain and, alternately, to searching for proof of extraterrestrial life.
“It’s my own personal UFO,” he shelp. “I’ve seen it, and I will never forget it, and I chase it as extfinished as I can. … I will figure out a way to transport you 3 and 4, because you’ve gone to 1 and you’re gonna go to 2, and we’re all gonna go west together.”
Check back Monday for the panel video.
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