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Horizon: An American Saga Story Details
Horizon: An American Saga - Sequel Plans
Horizon: An American Saga Trailer
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- Horizon: An American Saga, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, will be released in June 2024 and August 2024 as a two-part cinematic event.
- Costner has confirmed that Horizon: An American Saga is the first installment of a four-part Western series exploring pre-and post-Civil War America.
- The teaser trailer for Horizon: An American Saga revealed the release dates for both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, as well as confirmed the key cast members for the first chapter.
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Ever since it was announced that Kevin Costner chose to leave Yellowstone in favor of his passion project, there has been a lot of curiosity surrounding Horizon: An American Saga (and its now-confirmed sequels). Costner will return to directing after a 20-year absence and lead the massive cast of the historical Western that is planned to kickstart a four-movie story. While most of the Horizon: An American Saga news has been surrounding how it has led to Costner's shocking exit from Yellowstone, there is a lot to dive into with the movie.
Costner has helmed some big ambitious projects in his time as a director, and the Horizon: An American Saga release date will mark yet another turning point in his career. Dances with Wolves was a huge and partially self-financed gamble that ended up being a box office hit and won Costner Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture. Postman, on the other hand, was a critical flop that derailed Costner's career prior to his hugely successful run on Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone. A lot of attention will be focused on Horizon: An American Saga and there is a lot of information out there about the exciting project already.
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Horizon: An American Saga - Latest News
The most recent news on Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga arrived on October 5, 2023. The official Warner Bros. pictures account on X (formerly known as Twitter) shared perhaps the most crucial update on the upcoming Western so far — a teaser trailer and a release date. While the first trailer for Horizon: An American Saga was short at less than a minute long, it did confirm some key info about the Kevin Costner film.
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Crucially, the teaser for Horizon: An American Saga confirmed a 2024 release date not only for the first entry in the franchise but also Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2. The movie is being billed by Warner Bros. as a two-part theatrical event. The teaser also confirmed the key cast members for the first chapter of the epic Western movie — an important point, since there have been dozens of names both confirmed and rumored for the Horizon: An American Saga cast.
Horizon: An American Saga Is Confirmed
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Horizon: An American Saga has been confirmed with the project first announced in January 2022. Costner confirmed the movie would be the first in a four-part Western series looking at pre-and post-Civil War America. Costner first commissioned Horizon as a single movie back in 1988 only to have no interest from studios at the time. Costner held onto the passion project ever since, nearly getting it made with Disney following his directorial feature Open Range. Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema joined the production to distribute while Costner claims he mortgaged his own personal property to get the movie made.
Horizon: An American Saga Release Date
The Horizon: An American Saga release date is June 28, 2024, with the second installment arriving two months later in August. Costner had previously expressed hope that the movie would be released in 2023 or be available in time for the Venice Film Festival, which is not the case. The movie began filming in August 2022 and wrapped in November 2022. Costner also started filming the second installment in April 2023, wrapping in June the same year.
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Where To Watch Horizon: An American Saga
Horizon: An American Saga is set to be released in theaters. With its distribution coming through Warner Bros, it seems likely that the movie will be released on Max when the time comes for it to enter the streaming world.
Horizon: An American Saga Cast
Kevin Costner will head the Horizon: An American Saga cast in the lead role. Costner is no stranger to the Western genre as he first starred in the genre in 1985's Silverado. Costner went on to direct his own ambitious Western project, 1990's Dances with Wolves, which he also starred in. Costner's other Westerns include Wyatt Earp, Open Range, and Hatfield & McCoys, though none of these matched the success of Dances with Wolves. Costner also revitalized his career thanks to the success of the modern Western series Yellowstone.
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While Horizon: An American Saga is one of the main reasons Costner is leaving the Taylor Sheridan series, there are a number of actors from the Yellowstone universe who will be appearing in Horizon. Will Patton joined Yellowstone in season 3 as Garrett Randle, Jamie's real father, while Danny Huston played the villainous Dan Jenkins in the first two seasons of the series. Outside the main Yellowstone series, James Landry Hebert appeared as Wade in the spinoff 1883.
No character details have yet been revealed, and Costner has alluded to the vastness of the Horizon: An American Saga cast. While the full casting hasn't been disclosed, there are already several known names confirmed to be appearing in the new Kevin Costner western. Confirmed Horizon: An American Saga cast members include:
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- Kevin Costner
- Sienna Miller (Alfie)
- Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead)
- Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water)
- Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things)
- Jean Malone (Donnie Darko)
- Abbey Lee (Florida Man)
- Will Patton (Outer Range)
- Ella Hunt (Dickinson)
- Danny Huston (Yellowstone)
- Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums)
- Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan: First Kill)
- Jeff Fahey (County Line)
- Tatanka Means (Killers of the Flower Moon)
- Owen Crow Shoe (Joe Pickett)
Horizon: An American Saga - Creative Team
The Horizon: An America Saga creative team is also being led by Kevin Costner who will direct the movie and also wrote it alongside Jon Baird. Another key collaborator for the movie is cinematographer J. Michael Muro, who worked as a camera operator on Dances with Wolves which won the Oscar for Best Cinematography, and reteamed with him on Open Range.
Horizon: An American Saga Story Details
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The epic Horizon: An American Saga story will kick off the four-part movie series that will explore pre-Civil War and post-Civil War expansion of the American West. There are not many plot details beyond that, but Costner clearly has a huge vision in mind for the stories he is going to tell. It seems likely that this first movie will deal with the pre-war aspects of the story with Costner's Horizon: An American Saga story potentially showing the dangerous early days of the country as people attempted to settle and begin building their dreams with an uncertain future looming.
Horizon: An American Saga - Sequel Plans
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The Horizon: An American Saga sequels have already been greenlit, with the second installment already beginning filming in April 2023. Costner claims that, while the movie began as a single story, the more he added to it the bigger it grew until it was four separate stories. It will be interesting to see if the four movies will focus on different stories and different characters in each installment or if it will be one large story of these characters in a vital time in American history. The second, Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2
The four-movie plan is certainly an ambitious one that feels similar to another maverick filmmaker with James Cameron's Avatar sequels. With the second movie already in production, it seems as though the audience will at least get two chapters in Costner's saga. However, Horizon: An American Saga is such a huge gamble for the actor, it remains to be seen if he will actually be able to pull it off.
Horizon: An American Saga Trailer
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The first teaser trailer for Horizon: An American Saga arrived in October 2023, and covered both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Kevin Costner's upcoming cinematic western franchise. While only 0:42, the teaser confirmed some crucial release info including a premiere date in June 2024 for the first movie in the franchise, August for the second, and a clarified confirmed cast list. The trailer didn't reveal much about the Horizon: An American Saga story, as the footage shown was landscape shots of Utah and Kevin Costner firing at something (or someone) off-screen.
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