'Horizon' star Kevin Costner doesn’t 'just fall out of love with things I like'

Kevin Costner is not acrophobic to admit he's obsessed pinch nan film-making process, and of course, nan American southwest.

His return to nan metallic surface adjacent week will showcase his heavy admiration for nan Western genre. After all, "Horizon: An American Saga" is simply a task he's been moving connected for astir 30 years. 

"I don't cognize if passion's nan correct word," Costner told Entertainment Weekly. "I conscionable don't autumn retired of emotion pinch things I like. I americium ever looking for nan adjacent awesome movie."

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Kevin Costner is eager to stock nan communicative of nan American West pinch "Horizon: An American Saga." (Warner Bros.)

Costner released nan first trailer for nan four-part, post-Civil War play successful February, and showcased nan Wild West frontier his sanction has go synonymous pinch for decades, making love backmost to his first directorial stint connected "Dances pinch Wolves."

His enthusiasm for nan movie is cardinal to Costner's liking successful nan rich | history of nan American West.

"This is not a past stab astatine keeping this genre alive," he said. "This genre will unrecorded everlastingly if group return it seriously."

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He added, "I don't want to beryllium nan personification who's mounting nan grounds consecutive aliases 'Oh, present comes nan history lesson.' That's not me. But women are ascendant successful my film. I want to item what their contributions were. Without women, nan West dies. It ne'er happens. This state doesn't happen. They person a spot successful these stories."

"Horizon: An American Saga" takes spot post-Civil War. (Warner Bros.)

Darker themes surrounding Manifest Destiny are coming passim his film, but Costner insisted there's still a work successful his storytelling. In summation to starring successful nan characteristic film, Costner besides directed "Horizon," based connected a book he co-wrote pinch John Baird. 

"You can't show nan communicative unless you bump into that. You can't talk astir thing without knowing who was present earlier us," he said. "Our nationalist appetite ran complete civilization aft culture, pinch a precocious level of genocide. The group that were present for thousands of years were abruptly an inconvenience successful their ain land, and we should ne'er hide that. 

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"The conflict was unfair. It was one-sided. If it was a sporting event, personification would've thrown nan f---ing emblem and said, 'This is unacceptable,' but we did it, and we did it crossed nan full country. I ne'er americium going to hide what our information has been successful settling America, and I'm not truthful embarrassed astir it that I won't talk astir it." 

On May 19, Costner will surface "Horizon" astatine nan Cannes Film Festival, his first clip backmost connected nan Croisette successful 20 years.

Kevin Costner not only starred successful but besides directed his movie "Horizon." (Warner Bros.)

Luke Wilson leads a group of settlers done nan west. (Warner Bros.)

"I'd for illustration to convey nan Festival de Cannes for including my movie Horizon: An American Saga successful this year's selection," he wrote online. "It’s been 20 years since I’ve had nan pleasance of being connected nan Croisette. I’ve been waiting for nan correct clip to return and I’m proud to opportunity that this clip has come."

He added, "#HorizonAmericanSaga is simply a communicative that began 35 years ago, and I can't deliberation of a amended spot than Cannes to uncover to nan world nan consequence of specified a awesome adventure. The French person ever supported films and believed profoundly successful filmmaking. Just arsenic I judge profoundly successful my film."

The movie came pinch a hefty value tag, though, and group Costner backmost much than $20 cardinal successful out-of-pocket expenses, which came to ray successful tribunal documents aft his ex-wife, Christine Baumgartner, filed for divorcement successful May aft 18 years of marriage.

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The first portion of nan Western saga debuts successful theaters connected Friday, June 28, while nan 2nd portion of nan play will beryllium released 49 days later, connected Friday, Aug. 16.

Kevin made his directorial debut pinch "Dances pinch Wolves." (Tig Productions)

While it seems for illustration a awesome consequence for Costner to money "Horizon" himself, this isn't nan first clip he's done so.

Costner put up his ain money to money nan 1990 movie "Dances pinch Wolves," "The Postman" successful 1997 and "Black aliases White" successful 2014. 

Out of nan 3 projects, "Dances pinch Wolves" was nan astir critically acclaimed, earning Costner 2 Academy Awards for champion head and champion image and a information for champion character successful a starring role.

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