Bigger Than Yellowstone: Kevin Costner's Epic Western Saga He Sacrificed Everything For Premieres Soon

Summary:

• Kevin Costner spent over three decades pitching Horizon: An American Saga to studios before New Line picked it up.
• To make his movies, Costner left Yellowstone, jeopardizing Taylor Sheridan ’s iconic TV show’s production massively.
• Horizon: Chapter One premieres on June 28, 2024, so we’ll soon find out whether Costner’s huge sacrifice was worth it.

Kevin Costner’s falling-out with Taylor Sheridan and leaving Yellowstone might prove to be one of the biggest turning points of his entire career. An iconic Western actor, Costner put everything on making his own movies instead of finishing Sheridan’s saga, and since that decision, fans have been wondering whether it was worth the price he paid himself and made everyone else pay as well.

Kevin Costner Risked It All for Horizon

Costner is one of the most — if not simply the most — well-established actors in the Western genre. In the past years, Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone was his biggest project, having him play the lead role of John Dutton, the show’s ultimate patriarch. But being the lead star in someone else’s series didn’t seem good enough for him.

Having run into scheduling issues between his contract for Yellowstone and his commitment to his own Horizon movies, Costner decided to drop the former and focus all his effort into the latter. Taylor Sheridan claimed he was disappointed in his lead star’s decision and hoped Costner’s solo work would be worth all the trouble.

Seeing how the actor’s exit from Yellowstone created massive problems for Sheridan and made him reroute the entire finale of the TV show, it’s a fair notice. Fans have all been wondering the same thing, and we’ll get the answer to it soon enough.

Costner’s Horizon Premieres in Early Summer

Kevin Costner first came up with the idea for Horizon: An American Saga over three decades ago, and it took him all that time to find a studio that would invest into this huge-scale Western epic. The star’s persistence is about to pay off, though: having spent so much time, money, and effort to make these movies possible, Costner is about to present them to the world.

Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 is set for a June 28, 2024 premiere, with Chapter 2 following closely on August 16, 2024. This means that in just over a month, we’ll finally see what grand design has lived in Costner’s head rent-free for decades — and whether his sacrificing nearly everything he had would pay off.