Movie Preview: Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga”

Every time one interviewed Oscar winner Kevin Costner about Westerns, he’d speak of the life changing experience seeing the epic “How the West was Won” was as a boy.

Now that he’s reestablished his Western primacy thanks to a wildly popular (especially among older viewers), he’s ready to make one more big statement on the subject.

This epic, which might go as far as four planned installments, has an all-star cast of a “Lonesome Dove” size.

Sienna Miller, Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Sam Worthington, Michael Rooker, Michael Anagarano, Tatanka Means, Dale Dickey, Giovanni Ribisi, Glynn Turman, Angus Macfadyen, Kathleen Quinlan, Like Wilson and Thomas Haden Church are among the stars.

If he’s going to make his Big Statement on the West, I’d hope there’d be less white washing of the era that included Buffalo Soldiers, a Mexican diaspora, Black cowboys and lots more interaction with Native Americans.

Still not nuts about the title, embracing the American “Western” creation myth should be easy to get across without such vagaries.

Lots of proclaiming its themes from Danny Huston and others in this trailer.

But it’ll be something to see, in theaters in two parts this June and August.

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