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There’s nothing like a western starring and directed by Hollywood icon Kevin Costner. Nothing. Costner has nailed the subgenre almost picture perfect with his films Dances with Wolves (which won multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture) as well as Wyatt Earp. Costner just knows how to build drama, action, heart, and an epic scale of storytelling and now he’s back, after doing Yellowstone, with a guns blazing new 2-part saga that depicts the fight for freedom, love, peace, territorial independence and more.
This summer with sees the release of Costner’s latest directorial and starring effort Horizon: An American Saga Parts 1 & 2 on June 28, 2024, and August 16, 2024, respectively and now we have our first look at the epic themes that will be featured on the big screen in a story that was so big, it needed two entries to tell. Check out the new trailer below!
Official Synopsis: Kevin Costner’s Horizon will span 15 years in the settlement of America’s Western frontier, and focus on both the settlers as well as the Indigenous groups that first occupied the land.
In the great tradition of Warner Bros. Pictures’ iconic Westerns, Horizon: An American Saga explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat, and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Kevin Costner’s ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends, and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.
You just knew that Costner would try to fit just about anyone he could into this movie and the supporting cast is stacked. Are you ready for the roll call?
Horizon will feature Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Owen Crow Shoe, Tatanka Means, Ella Hunt, Tim Guinee, Danny Huston, Colin Cunningham, Scott Haze, Tom Payne, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Will Patton, Georgia MacPhail, Douglas Smith, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Alejandro Edda, Wasé Winyan Chief, Michael Anganaro, Angus Macfadyen, Jon Beavers, Alex Nibley, Kathleen Quinlan, Etienne Kellici, Amos Jason Charging Cloud, Bodhi Okuma Linton, Gregory Cruz, James Russo, Jeff Fahey, David O’Hara, Chris Conner, Leroy M. Silva, Bernardo Velasco, Tom Everett, Glynn Turman, Giovanni Ribisi and many more. I told you this saga was loaded.
Costner tells his epic from a variety of angles including the indigenous tribes who inhabited the untamed land to those who ravaged it by any means necessary and the innocent people caught in between. Costner has always been a master storyteller and even though some of his earlier efforts were a little bloated, there’s no denying the sheer ambition of this one and Costner’s love for the source material. Open Range, which Costner directed and starred in as well, is one of my all-time favorite western dramas so I’m always there on day one when he makes another one.
