Kevin Costner directed, co-wrote and stars in "Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter I," the first of a four-movie Western epic. The first two installments were filmed in southern Utah in 2023, and Costner has announced plans to finish the series there in 2024. The first installment is scheduled to be released June 28, 2024, and the second on August 16, 2024.
What Costner puts on the screen in these first three hours is often impressive, and a reminder that — as he proved with his 1990 Oscar winner “Dances With Wolves” and his last directing effort, 2003′s “Open Range” — there are few filmmakers alive who intuitively understand the iconography of the Hollywood Western like he does.
“Chapter I” starts with settlers trying to claim small parcels of land in the San Pedro Valley in 1858. The first ones are killed by Apaches, who believe the “white-eyes” are encroaching on sacred territory. Then more settlers come, all holding fliers printed by some East Coast entrepreneur promising a new town called Horizon — which the new arrivals build themselves.
Sam Worthington plays a Cavalry officer in "Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter I," the first of a four-movie Western epic directed by, co-written by and starring Kevin Costner. The first two installments were filmed in southern Utah in 2023, and Costner has announced plans to finish the series there in 2024. The first installment is scheduled to be released June 28, 2024, and the second on August 16, 2024.
So it’s a surprise when Ellison lands in one hardscrabble town and accepts an offer from Marigold for an evening of comfort. On his way to visit Marigold, though, Ellison ends up in a gun battle with a talkative lowlife, Caleb Sykes , and goes on the run with Marigold and a two-year-old in tow. The mother of that toddler, Ellen Harvey , is someone we’ve seen earlier in the story, escaping the nasty Sykes family in Montana.