Kevin Costner in “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1.”
Danny Huston, who plays a major role in Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga has given a promising update about the beleaguered Western film series.
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 was released on June 28, 2024, and struggled for five weeks at the box office. When the film ended its theatrical run in early August, it only earned $29 million in North American theaters and $9.7 million internationally for a worldwide domestic gross of $38.7 million against a $100 million production budget before prints and advertising Variety reported.
Costner spent $38 million of his own money to finance Horizon, per Variety, alongside two unnamed private investors. Horizon Chapter 1 not only prematurely completed its theatrical run on Aug. 8, 2024, but the planned Aug. 16, 2024, release of Horizon Chapter 2 was postponed by Costner’s production company and distributor New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
With an initial release date set a mere six weeks after Horizon Chapter 1 was released in theaters in late June of 2024, Costner still proceeded to complete Horizon Chapter 2 and held the film’s worldwide premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2024.
After that, Costner staged Horizon Chapter 2’s U.S. premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Feb. 7.
While the release date of Horizon Chapter 2 remains in limbo, Huston — who plays Col. Albert Houghton in Costner’s Western saga — has a positive update for fans who want to see the actor-director-producer see the film series through its completion.
During a recent interview with Screen Rant, Danny Huston — the son of the late legendary director John Huston and brother of fellow actor Anjelica Huston — said that Costner has largely completed filming Horizon Chapter 3.
“I think he’s got a lot of Chapter 3 in the can, actually. But there’s no stopping him,” Danny Huston told Screen Rant of Costner’s progress on the third Horizon: An American Saga movie. “He’s just unbelievable, and this dream of his is coming to life in a spectacular way. It’s just extraordinary what he does.”
Kevin Costner Has Made No Secret That He’s Looking For More ‘Horizon’ Investors
Despite the setbacks surrounding Horizon: An American Saga Chapters 1 and 2, Kevin Costner has pressed on with completing his film series, saying during a Deadline Contenders panel for Horizon Chapter 1 on Nov. 16, 2024, that he was searching for more investors.
“I’m hoping, I’m dreaming, I’m meeting all the billionaires that we all hear about — they’re all hiding in the shadows,” Costner said during the Deadline Contenders event, adding that he was working on Horizon Chapter 3 with an eye on making Chapter 4.
“I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I’m going to make it and then I’m going to make the fourth one,” Costner said at the Deadline Contenders panel. “And if you want to say ‘the end’ at that point, then that’s the end.”
Apart from the filming setbacks, Horizon: An American Saga has also been weathering some legal issues surrounding the production. The Hollywood Reporter reported in early May that Horizon Series (which is Costner’s loan-out firm), New Line Cinema and City National Bank were involved in a legal battle.
Then in late May, a stunt double filed a lawsuit against the production, “alleging sexual harassment, hostile work environment and intentional infliction of emotional distress,” NBC News reported. According to NBC News, the stunt double alleges in the complaint that a “’violent, unscripted, unscheduled’ rape scene unfolded during filming in Utah on May 2, 2023.”
Responding to an amended complaint by the stunt double, Devyn LaBella, Costner’s attorney Marty Singer denies the claims, telling TMZ on June 24, “Ms. LaBella was doing a rehearsal on an Insert Shot for a scripted scene. There was no intimacy or anything sexual in the shot. There was tugging on a dress while she was fully clothed in a dress with long bloomers lying down next to a male actor … Numerous witnesses have contradicted Ms. LaBella’s meritless claims. She herself texted her supervisor after she wrapped stating, ‘Thank you for these wonderful weeks.’”
Kevin Costner’s Horizon: Chapter 2’s release date is yet to be announced.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/06/30/kevin-costners-horizon-an-american-saga-star-gives-filming-update/