Kevin Costner has released the first full trailer for Horizon: An American Saga, his wildly ambitious, four-part post-Civil War Western epic that helped lure the actor away from his other Western — Paramount Network’s Yellowstone.
Costner co-wrote, directed and stars in the Horizon series. The first film will be released in theaters June 28, followed by its second chapter just two months later. The second two films haven’t yet been shot. The film has been a 30-year journey for Costner, who even took out a loan on his Santa Barbara home to help finance the picture (Costner notes the first two films added $100 million the economy in Utah, where they were shot).
Asked what was a bigger struggle, Horizon or making his Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves, Costner said the new films — which he spent six years writing — were tougher
Much of Horizon‘s press has revolved around how the film has impacted the actor’s work on Paramount Network’s Western hit Yellowstone. Costner has been involved in a protracted and messy split with the hit drama as he’s shifted his focus to Horizon films. The show’s team complained that Costner has made himself less available for the series, while the actor’s team has blamed Yellowstone script delays. In either case, it’s very unclear if Costner will return to the show to finish patriarch John Dutton’s storyline when the show eventually returns for the second half of its fifth season. Paramount has announced those remaining episodes will end the series, and will then pivot to launching a Yellowstone sequel with the working title 2024.