Horizon: An American Saga
The first trailer for Kevin Costner’s epic Western drama Horizon: An American Saga dropped not that long ago and it looks like everything I hoped for. A sprawling, epic, beautifully shot Western the likes of which simply haven’t been made in years, outside of Taylor Sheridan’s 1883.
Costner, of course, was one of the stars—and certainly the main draw—for Sheridan’s Yellowstone, which Costner has departed. He had already cut back his time working on the Montana ranch drama to focus more on Horizon and looking at the trailer you can see why. Yellowstone had already been going downhill, stuck in a constant swirl of misery and miasma, and—in my humblest of opinions—felt too much like a soap opera by the time its fifth season aired. A soap opera with lots of very, deeply unpleasant people.
Horizon: An American Saga looks like just the opposite. Here’s the trailer:
The film’s blurb reads:
The film’s sprawling cast includes “Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Owen Crow Shoe, Tatanka Means, Ella Hunt, Tim Guinee, Danny Huston, Colin Cunningham, Scott Haze, Tom Payne, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Will Patton, Georgia MacPhail, Douglas Smith, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Alejandro Edda, Wasé Winyan Chief, Michael Anganaro, Angus Macfadyen, Jon Beavers, Alex Nibley, Kathleen Quinlan, Etienne Kellici, Amos Jason Charging Cloud, Bodhi Okuma Linton, Gregory Cruz, James Russo, Jeff Fahey, David O’Hara, Chris Conner, Leroy M. Silva, Bernardo Velasco, Tom Everett, Glynn Turman, Giovanni Ribisi and more.”
This is Costner’s first time back in the director’s chair since 2003’s Open Range, which he starred in alongside Robert Duvall. He also directed the classic Dances With Wolves, his directorial debut, in 1990.
The first part of Horizon: An American Saga lands in theaters on June 28, 2024, the second on August 16, 2024, so at least we won’t have long to wait. I’m curious how this will go over with audiences. If it’s as good as it looks and reviews well, it might be a one-two punch that really boosts this year’s box office. Costner has two further films planned, making this a tetralogy. I’ll be curious to see how it all plays out.
I’m certainly thrilled to have a new big budget Western coming out this year. Twice.
Updated noting that this is a tetralogy not a duology, which makes me worry less about what I initially thought was a two-movie trend.


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