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Kevin Costner has released the first full trailer for Horizon: An American Sagahis wildly ambitious four-part post-Civil War Western epic that helped steer the actor away from his other Western: the Paramount Network one. yellow stone.
The trailer (below) has a broad, old-fashioned grandeur and is filled with panoramic views, gunfights, romance, caravans, and a clash of civilizations between Calvary soldiers and indigenous people. “There is no army on this Earth that is going to stop those cars from arriving,” warns a character played by Danny Huston.
Costner co-wrote, directed and stars in the Horizon series. The first film opens in theaters on June 28, followed by its second chapter just two months later. The second two films have not yet been filmed. 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 film (Costner notes that the first two films added $100 million to the economy of Utah, where they rolled).
“When no one wanted to do the first one, I had the brilliant idea of doing four,” Costner said dryly during a moderated discussion about the Horizon trailer. “So I don’t know what’s wrong with me. But she wanted it to move away from what we normally see in Westerns where there’s a city that’s already there. Nobody knows how (the city) came to be. There’s a guy appearing on the horizon, so to speak. We don’t know much about him except that he has some abilities he’d like to leave behind and this town ends up needing those images desperately… Too often, it’s just a convenience for the hero to take down a dumb guy. .”
He continued: “We have a lot of westerns that are not good either because they are simplified (but) this is not Disneyland. These are real lives. People just make their way, women just try to keep their families clean and fed… That appeals to me. I’ll always get to my shooting, but I’m drawn to the little things that people had to endure. So for me, Horizon It was worth keeping because I felt like I wanted to tell it. It grew and grew and grew until I suddenly realized that I had to do it and that I had to find myself financially to do it, which is not the smartest thing to do. But I count on the film to speak more than anything I can say.”
When asked what was a bigger struggle, Horizon or make your Oscar award Dancing with WolvesCostner said the new films, which he spent six years writing, were more difficult. “This is by far the biggest fight. It’s hot Dances in 106 days. I shot the movie you’re watching right now in 52. I learned a lot and was able to use every trick in the book to bring this movie to the audience, and there are four of them.”
Much of HorizonThe press has been all about how the film has impacted the actor’s work on Paramount Network’s western hit. yellow stone. Costner has been involved in a protracted and messy split from the hit drama as he shifted focus from him to Horizon Movies. The show’s team complained that Costner had made himself less available for the series, while Costner’s team blamed yellow stone script delays. In any case, it’s not entirely clear whether Costner will return to the show to finish patriarch John Dutton’s story when the show finally returns for the second half of its fifth season. Paramount has announced that those remaining episodes will end the series and then move on to the release of a yellow stone sequel with the working title 2024.
In the trailer, the film’s color palette is so bright that the footage almost appears Technicolor, in contrast to the darker, bolder style largely adopted by Westerns since Clint Eastwood’s 1992 classic. unforgivable. “I think things that have a classic feel don’t go out of style,” Costner says. “I think they exist in any decade, and that’s the opportunity we have in cinema: to make something that lasts… I don’t have a tendency to follow trends or (look at) what really works.”
Regarding the film’s depiction of clashes between white settlers and indigenous people, Costner said: “I’m ashamed of what happened, I don’t know if I’m ashamed or embarrassed, but I want to project what really happened,” he said. . “There was great injustice in the West, but that does not minimize the courage it took for my ancestors to break loose and go there. And I recognized the ingenuity and bravery that it took to set out and make this march across this country. It’s just a movie that shows the kind of cultures. It’s our story. I love it. I can enjoy watching a movie like this if I feel like I can see myself in it, and I worked really hard to make that happen.”
Delving a little deeper into the topic of morality and the Old West, and delving into some potentially controversial topic, Costner added: “I think it’s really a mistake to judge other people how they had to act or act in another century. We kind of apply our own sensitivity when we live a life today where, when we feel offended, we have to get a lawyer or an agent or a publicity person, someone who arbitrates our problems. Back then, you had to arbitrate your problems yourself, which was terribly dramatic, especially if you’re dealing with a sociopath. You have to understand that we were coming out of that terrible Civil War. And if anyone believes in post-traumatic stress, at that time there were only about 30 million people in the United States and the war lasted four years. We lost 56,000 men in Vietnam. We lost 600,000 in the Civil War. “People came West, sometimes with a lot of hope, bringing their family, and others came West because they were damaged and fleeing from something.”
He continued: “The stranger was a boogeyman. If you were a stranger 120 years ago, people were afraid of you because they didn’t know if that was really your name or what you had really done. Like the trailer says, if you were strong enough, if they were bad enough, they could hold on to something, they could take it from you. And when you can create that architecture in a movie where anything is possible, some people are lucky and some people aren’t. And when they tried to look at his wife, she asked, ‘Why are we hanging out here?’ The man simply said, “We’re going to be luckier than that.” And that’s how this country was colonized and the Native American Indians were crushed by this movement. “They didn’t have a chance.”
Horizon Also stars Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt and Jamie Campbell Bower.
Costner produces with Howard Kaplan and Mark Gillard. The films more than three decades after Costner took home a directing Oscar for Dancing with Wolveswhich also won the award for best film.