Kevin Costner’s two-part western “Horizon” release dates are 2024

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Kevin Costner’s two-part Western epic “Horizon: An American Saga” is coming to theaters next summer.

“Chapter One” will be released on June 28, 2024, while “Chapter Two” will be released on August 16, 2024, according to Warner Bros. Entertainment. And New Line. The first film will open opposite Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two,” while the sequel will premiere a week after Lionsgate’s “Borderlands” adaptation, starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart.

Costner teased big plans for “Horizon,” which he originally planned as “four different movies” released every three months. “They’re all different films that are interconnected, so you’re watching an odyssey of these events happening,” he said. diverse last year. It’s not clear if Costner still plans to extend “Horizon” into a four-part epic.

In addition to directing, Costner stars in Horizon: An American Saga alongside Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, and Luke Wilson. The story spans 15 years in America’s western frontier settlement and focuses on the settlers and indigenous groups who first occupied the land.

“It’s a beautiful story; it’s a difficult story,” Costner previously said. “It involves women trying to live in a world that was impossibly difficult. They were often [dragged] Going out to these places because that’s where the guys wanted to go; The women followed their men. They did not ask to be in these unstable and dangerous areas, and life was not easy. “I chose to make sure it was really clear, that it wasn’t easy, and how vulnerable people are.”

Costner is the star of Paramount Network’s hit series “Yellowstone,” making him one of the highest-paid actors on television. But his future with the series remains uncertain amid a messy fallout with “Yellowstone” producers, who claimed Costner was available for fewer and fewer days while he focused his attention on filming “Horizon.” But Costner said the opposite is true and confirmed that he is postponing his filming schedule to accommodate the fifth season of “Yellowstone.”

“Horizon: An American Saga” is Costner’s fourth directorial work after “Open Range” in 2003, “The Post Man” in 1997, and “Dances With Wolves,” which won the Best Picture award in 1990.