Kevin Costner Wants to Split His Western Epic ‘Horizon’ Into Four Movies (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Manori Ravindran International EditorKevin Costner has big plans for his long-awaited fourth directorial effort “Horizon,” an epic western that’s going into production at the end of August.The “Yellowstone” star told Variety that the project, which is housed with Warner Bros.

and New Line Cinema, is being planned as “four different movies” and that “about every three months, they’ll come out.”“They’re all different films that all connect, so you’re watching a saga of these storylines that are happening,” said the actor, who was in London doing press for the U.K.

launch of Paramount+.Costner said the film is currently casting and “trying to fill up” 170 speaking roles.Announced back in April, “Horizon” is Costner’s first directorial project since western “Open Range” in 2003.

His two other films were “The Post Man” (1997), in which he starred as a drifter who dons a postman uniform to explore America, and the American Civil War-era classic “Dances With Wolves” (1990), which earned Costner the best director prize at the 1991 Oscars, along with six other Academy Awards.