Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 is to get its American premiere at last, nearly six months after its planned release.
Ah-ha! Now this feels like progress. Since the release of Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 last summer, co-writer/star/director Kevin Costner’s passion project. The first of four planned films, it didn’t set the box office alight, and the planned release of the already-completed Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 was mothballed.
Fast forward six months, and in spite of Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 getting a Venice Film Festival premiere last year, it’s not reappeared on the cinema release lists in the UK or the US. The first film has shot up the Netflix charts since it landed on the streaming service, even as – as he told me in this podcast – Kevin Costner continues to seek funds to get Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 3 and 4 made.
There’s still the matter of the completed second film though, and we might just have a bit of progress. Popping into my inbox has been news of – at last – an American premiere for the second film.
It’s taking place at the Santa Barbara Film Festival next month, with a free screening of the first film scheduled for 7th February, and then the premiere of the second movie on 8th Saturday. Kevin Costner will be doing an in-person Q&A immediately afterwards.
There’s a further treat, too. On 13th February, there’s the premiere of behind-the-scenes documentary Beyond The Horizon, the story of the making of the films. Directed by Mark Gillard, he and Costner will be doing a Q&A after that as well.
Of course, this lends the question as to when those of us not able to get to a film festival can see the film (and the documentary). I heard one whisper that it might be April, but couldn’t find anything substantive to back it up, so a bit of a pinch of salt there. But the thinking is it’s likely to be before the summer, and ideally, that’ll unlock the resources Costner needs to get the saga finished.
More as we hear it.