Kevin Costner stands behind his substantial personal investment in his passion project.
While talking to GQ about his upcoming multi-part western Horizon: An American Saga, the 69-year-old actor and director recalled his decade-long journey on the project. Costner revealed that he has spent roughly $38 million of his own money to make the series so far.
“That’s the message I want my kids to get about who I am: to do what I believe in,” he told the outlet, taking the financial risk. “I have fear like everyone else. I don’t want to be humiliated.”
Although the fact that Costner took out a mortgage on the family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., to help finance the first two films in the series made headlines, the actor emphasized that he did not risk the permanent lives of his children. “I mean, it’s okay, I might lose it. But it is: Am I lost?”
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Costner wrote, directed and starred Horizonwhich had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2024. As GQ it was reported that Costner first wrote the initial story in 1988, transferred production of the film with Disney in 2003 due to a budget dispute, and later reworked the story into a four-part story in 2012 with his co-writer Jon Baird.
While speaking with the publication, Costner envisioned a theoretical conversation with a psychiatrist who wonders why he would expand a film he struggled to finance into four parts.
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“I guess the answer is because I believe. But I can also see that shrink saying, ‘Yeah, but nobody wanted one and you only made four.’ It’s like I haven’t heard it the first time,” he said. “And I can’t defend that mentality. I can’t defend anything except the story that was getting better and better for me.”
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Horizon: An American Saga received a 10-minute standing ovation after its Cannes premiere. Costner said at the festival’s press conference that he had started filming Chapter 3 before the festival and will continue filming when he returns.
“I’m going to leave here and I’m going to come back and start directing again and go as far as my money will go,” said Costner, who added that he is still trying to secure additional funding for the third installment of the film.
Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter 1 is in theaters June 28 with 2. Chapter comes out on August 16.
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