Wat-Not Staff
After the original August 16 release date was canceled, “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2” will now have its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Find out what Kevin Costner has to say
Kevin Costner On Horizon’s Failure
Speaking openly about his Horizon film series is Kevin Costner. The 69-year-old actor talked with reporters on Saturday, September 7, at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. He talked about the global premiere of his newest film, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, and the decision to postpone its August 16 release date. The performance of Chapter 1, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May and was released in theaters on June 28, was the deciding factor, according to Costner, in the decision to postpone the release of the second movie.
“It didn’t have overwhelming success,” he said, per Variety, before noting, “I’ve had a lot of movies that have stood the test of time.”
After explaining that the film’s studio first “decided” to release Chapter 2 six weeks after the original movie’s release, Costner said, they later changed their minds and chose “not” to release it on August 16.
Nevertheless, Costner expressed his satisfaction with the way things worked out. “For me, it fell back into my plan, which was that I always wanted to come out with movies about five-six months apart. And that was going to allow me to come to Venice,” the actor said, according to Variety. “I would have never come to Venice, because they won’t show the film here if it was already out.”
Kevin About Choosing His Projects
When the press corps questioned Costner about his choice of theme, he replied, “I just love the journey of America, the promise of what America was.” The sight of the massive continent devoid of any structures astounded the people who fled Europe to travel across the Atlantic Ocean. And the world began to open its eyes, and they would travel to America bearing a pledge. That was roughly a 300–400 year march by both your and my ancestors across America from sea to shining sea.
Costner pondered, “There’s something about the West.” It’s a location where things were challenging and happened in inches, not a land in Disneyland. I was driven by a strong desire to share that tale, and I discovered that telling it almost entirely through the perspectives of women was the most effective approach. Every single Horizon scenario features a female character at its center. That’s the kind of film I wanted to make, and I also wanted to remind people in my own nation that it was a difficult time in our nation’s history.
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