Kevin Costner is talking candidly about his Horizon movie collection.
On Saturday, Sept. 7, the actor, 69, spoke with reporters on the 2024 Venice Film Festival, the place he mentioned the world premiere of his new film, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, and why its unique Aug. 16 launch date was scrapped.
Costner defined that the choice to delay the second movie’s launch got here all the way down to the efficiency of Chapter 1, which premiered on the Cannes Film Festival in Might and was launched in theaters on June 28.
“It didn’t have overwhelming success,” he stated, per Variety. “I’ve had a whole lot of motion pictures that manner, which have stood the check of time.”
Costner went on to clarify that the studio behind the movie made the “choice” to launch Chapter 2 six weeks after the primary movie’s launch, earlier than they backtracked and determined “not” to launch it on Aug. 16.
The actor’s firm, Territory Photos, and the distributor, New Line Cinema, introduced that they had been changing their strategy for the second movie’s launch on July 10.
Nonetheless, Costner famous that he was completely satisfied that issues turned out the best way they did.
“For me, it fell again into my plan, which was I all the time wished to return out with motion pictures about five-six months aside. And that was going to permit me to return to Venice,” the actor stated, in accordance with Selection. “I’d have by no means come to Venice, as a result of they received’t present the movie right here if it was already out.”
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Costner added that Venice creative director Alberto Barbera was “the largest cause” they had been in a position to present the venture on the Venice Movie Competition, and he praised him for “bringing this right here.”
“… [He] gave me my dream and didn’t enable it to be squashed,” Costner stated. “F—, Venice retains coming to my rescue!”
Costner wrote on Instagram on July 31 that the pageant’s choice to host the second Horizon film’s premiere and display the primary film earlier within the day “exhibits not solely their perception in how the 2 movies work collectively however their help of a director’s imaginative and prescient.”
“I’m indebted to Alberto Barbera for his braveness and management in committing to this cinematic journey. It’s with gratitude and pleasure that I return to the Venice Movie Competition,” he wrote on the time. “Lengthy dwell the flicks and people keen to face for them.”
Along with Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt and Jamie Campbell Bower all costar within the giant ensemble throughout his two Horizon motion pictures.
The 2-time Academy Award winner moreover stated at Cannes in Might that he was actively filming the collection’ third installment.
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 doesn’t but have a launch date.