Signed by Kevin Costner, the first part of the “Horizon” saga is coming to French screens.
The beginning of a great epic about the brutal birth of America, in the heart of the 19th century.
If you’re still hesitant, here are three good reasons to mark July 3rd in your calendars.
More than 20 years after his last directorial film, Kevin Costner is back in business with Horizon, a saga whose first part is released in France on July 3, after its preview at the Cannes Film Festival last May. It begins at the dawn of the Civil War, in 1861, and takes us in the footsteps of several settler families who came to settle in America, at their own risk. A great spectacle, an uncompromising vision of History, a charismatic hero. It’s one of the big cinema events of the summer…
For the great ambition of its author
Kevin Costner has westerns in his blood. In 1990, he entered the legend of the genre thanks to the formidable Dancing with the wolvesseven Oscars up for grabs. After the failure of Open Rangein 2003, one could believe that his passion for the Wild West had died out. Wrong! In his boxes since the end of the 1990s, Horizon is the most ambitious project of his career. Four films whose shooting began in the summer of 2022 in the natural settings of Utah, with several parallel plots, a cast that mixes familiar faces and newcomers… In GQthe star reveals having invested 38 million dollars of his personal fortune, out of a total budget of 100 million.
For his unfiltered look at America
At his time, Dancing with the wolves had won over audiences with its great love story between a Northern soldier and a woman from the Sioux tribe. Inspired by a novel by Michael Blake, the film contrasted with decades of Manichean westerns with the good white guys on one side and the bad Indians on the other. In the same spirit, Horizon shows how America was built through violence when European settlers came to dispossess the Indians of their land. Which does not prevent Kevin Costner from celebrating his great ideals, as he told us last May on the Croisette.
To see Kevin again on the big screen
After several lean years at the box office, Kevin Costner got back on track on TV thanks to the success of the series Yellowstone. He plays the owner of a huge Montana ranch, the tormented John Dutton, a role tailor-made for its star. In Horizonthe director took on the role of Hayes Ellison, a lone wolf looking for a little corner of paradise in a troubled era. Except that after crossing paths with a young prostitute, he will be forced to let loose… A silent, slightly mysterious character to whom the actor-director lends his unique charisma.
>> Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 by and with Kevin Costner. Also starring Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington. 3 hours. In theaters July 3
