The chaos behind the scenes of Yellowstone is now more complicated than the universe consisting of a main series, two published spin-offs and three other planned spin-offs. What is certain is that Kevin Costner left the series behind in order to have more time to film his new cinema project. The western saga Horizon is over There will be at least two films, both of which will be released in 2024.
The first long Horizon trailer was recently released and I can already say that the western epic looks more exciting than any Yellowstone episode. Exactly this one Cinema megalomania we definitely need it again.
Horizon promises typical Kevin Costner visual power that is missing in the cinema
When Costner releases a film as a director, he rarely does things by halves. His directorial debut, Dances with Wolves, was a three-hour epic that revitalized the Western in the early 1990s. He was actually only the leading actor in the legendary sci-fi flop Waterworld, but at some point the star also took over the directing role in order to go down with the film about post-apocalyptic floating cities.
Check out the long trailer for Horizon here:
Horizon – Trailer (English) HD
As a director, Costner is repeatedly drawn back to the Western, a genre in which his last cinema directorial work, Open Range from 2003, was also set. With Horizon coming now possibly the most megalomaniacal Kevin Costner project to us, with which he, even at the age of almost 70, is risking everything again.
Costner has announced the at least two-part epic as a saga that will shed light on the lives of settlers in the American Western over a period of 15 years. The first long Horizon trailer can therefore only be viewed as a small excerpt. Nevertheless, it conveys the vast scope of Costner’s ambitions with convincing cinematic force.
The images look powerful and magnificent. The music strives for maximum emotional drama in just over three minutes of the video. In general, the Horizon trailer works like a best-of of all (in the best sense) pathetic moments and grand gestureswhich Costner loads all of his films with.
Barbie and Oppenheimer brought fresh cinema hype that Costner’s horizon can perfectly expand
Last year, thanks to the Barbenheimer hype, it became clear that (a lot of) people would rather go to the cinema again for original, new material due to the general superhero fatigue and the endless franchises. A genre that has lacked such a new breakthrough in cinema in recent years has been the Western.
There were films like Enemies – Hostiles with Christian Bale, Tarantino’s Django Unchained and The Hateful 8 or thrillers with Western elements like Wind River by Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan. An epic like Costner’s Horizon, which already feels so much like a classic western epic that it seems modern againbut was missing.
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It is probably no coincidence that Yellowstone, with its director and leading actor, has now become the most successful current series in the USA. Traditional Western stories are making a comeback today and Horizon will hopefully be the big culmination of this trend on the big screen.
Maybe the star has gone completely overboard with his Horizon megalomania and has to accept a financial failure à la Waterworld. But if someone can bring the Western back to the cinema in its most epic power, then Kevin Costner. Maybe soon we’ll all be wondering what Yellowstone was again.