The wild, wild west will quickly be obtainable out of your sofa: Kevin Costner‘s “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1″ is moseying over to Max on Friday, Aug. 23.
The primary installment of his western sequence, which he starred in, co-directed, co-wrote, produced and co-financed, particulars the lifetime of a number of characters within the American West throughout and after the Civil Battle. Costner deliberate for the “Horizon” saga to span 4 films, the primary two of which had been shot again to again, however after the primary movie’s field workplace catastrophe it’s unclear how the sequence will proceed.
The second film within the “Horizon” franchise was pulled from its Aug. 16 theatrical release date, after the primary movie earned solely $11 million at the box office its opening weekend regardless of its roughly $100 million greenback price range. Costner said that he spent $38 million of his personal cash to finance the movie. “Horizon Chapter 2” will bow on the Venice Movie Pageant out-of-competition on Sept. 7.
A New Line Cinema spokesperson recently told Variety the choice to carry the second movie was to “give audiences a larger alternative to find the primary installment of ‘Horizon’ over the approaching weeks, together with on PVOD and Max.”
Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Jamie Campbell Bower and Thomas Haden Church spherical out the forged of the western movie.
The primary installment within the movie sequence hit PVOD July 16, lower than a month after it was launched in theaters June 28.
Costner began manufacturing on the third film within the sequence in Might and took a pause to advertise the primary installment. Filming for “Chapter 3” was anticipated to proceed in August, and key members of the crew have the script for the fourth and final film.
