Part two of Kevin Coster‘s "Horizon: An American Saga" will premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. Co-written by Costner and Jon Baird ("The Explorers Guild"), and produced through his Territory Pictures, the films, from New Line Cinema, cover the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West.
"Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter Two", directed by and starring the Oscar-winning actor, boasts a star-studded supporting cast of Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Danny Huston. It is set to get its world premiere in the out-of-competition section in Venice on Sept. 7.
"Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One" will also be screened on the same day after the film received a 10-minute standing ovation in Cannes in May – though critics soon piled on Costner’s Western epic. Horizon was the first film in writer-director-star Costner’s four-picture gamble that he famously leveraged one of his homes to help finance (spending $38 million out of pocket). Chapter One is three hours and is largely focused on setting the stage — introducing a sprawling ensemble of characters.
The "Dances with Wolves" actor referred to the film as a dream come true: “My dream was always to show 'Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter Two' at the Venice Film Festival. The fact that now they have decided to show Chapter One earlier in the day and then the World Premiere of Chapter Two that evening shows not only their belief in how the two films work together but their support of a director’s vision," highlighted.