Kevin Costner to star in & direct Western Horizon nearly 20 YEARS since being behind the camera

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31 Jan 2022, 11:46

Oscar-winning KC is dusting off his cowboy hat and notepad. The actor is set to produce, finance and take the lead in his upcoming movie in Utah which will see him behind the camera for the first time since 2003’s Open Range.

He told Deadline: "Horizon tells the story of that journey in an honest and forthcoming way, highlighting the points of view and consequences of the characters' life and death decisions."

The Hollywood offering will focus on the history of 'America’s expansion into the west was one that was fraught with peril and intrigue from the natural elements, to the interactions with the indigenous peoples who lived on the land, and the determination and at many times ruthlessness of those who sought to settle it'.

Talking about his previous role in Let Him Go playing retired sheriff George Blackledge not being a Western, he said: "I don't think of it like that, just as I don't think of Star Wars as a Western in space. I thought of this as a movie set in the (60s) and people in the Midwest, they still raise animals and they have horses, and once in a while they have to arbitrate their own problems. Which is kind of what the west was about."

He added: "I saw it as a man with a long relationship with a woman, a hard-headed woman, a woman who morally thinks she's right, ethically she is right, but the reality of what she wants to do is really a threat.

"It's a bigger threat to her than she can imagine, and my character sees it very very clearly, and he stoically, begrudgingly, he goes along to protect her."