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When does Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ premiere? Release date, cast and trailer
Costner’s epic western arrives on the big screen this summer, with the first of the series’ four films set to be released.
Kevin Costner’s ambitious, multi-part western Horizon: An American Saga is due to hit US movie theatres in two instalments this summer, with two more to follow at later dates, which have yet to be revealed.
Chapter one of Horizon, a Civil War-era drama dubbed a “story of America too big for one film”, is due out on 28 June 2024. Chapter two is then scheduled to premiere on 16 August. In all, Costner, who has been working on the film on and off since 1988, has opted to split the project into four parts, after it had originally been promoted as a two-part series.
“Multi-faceted” Horizon “a hard story”
As well as co-writing and directing the movie, the 69-year-old plays the lead role, which features an ensemble cast led by Sienna Miller and Sam Worthington. Horizon is described by distributors Warner Bros as “a multi-faceted chronicle covering the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West,” told from the perspective of cattle ranchers, farmers and soldiers, among others.
“It’s a really beautiful story; it’s a hard story,” Costner told Variety in 2022. “It really involves a lot of women, to be honest. There are a lot of men in it, too, but the women are really strong in Horizon. It’s just them trying to get by every day in a world that was impossibly tough. They were often [dragged] out to these places because that’s where the men wanted to go; women were following their men. They didn’t ask to be in these territories that were unsettled and dangerous, and life wasn’t easy.”
Who’s in the Horizon cast?
Alongside Costner, Horizon’s extensive cast includes Miller, Worthington, Jena Malone, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, Kathleen Quinlan, Luke Wilson and Isabelle Fuhrman. You’ll find a fuller cast list on the Warner Bros website.
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Costner already a Civil War Oscar winner
Set during the four years of the American Civil War - 1861 to 1865 - Horizon is Costner’s first directorial project since 2003. It sees him return to a time period that he dealt with to Oscars acclaim in Dances with Wolves. Costner won Best Director and Best Picture for the 1990 film, in which he also starred.