After being teased at the end of part one and then pushed back from its August release spot, Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2 has been set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September.
The word over on The Hollywood Reporter is that the film will have an evening premiere with part one playing to festival crowds the same morning.
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 is a multi-faceted chronicle covering the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West. The film stars Costner, who co-writes with Jon Baird (The Explorers Guild) and produces through his Territory Pictures. In the great tradition of Warner Bros. Pictures’ iconic Westerns, Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Costner’s ambitious cinematic adventure takes audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.
Speaking with the trade about the announcement, Costner said: “My dream was always to show Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter Two at the Venice Film Festival. The fact that now they have decided to show Chapter One earlier in the day and then the World Premiere of Chapter Two that evening shows not only their belief in how the two films work together but their support of a director’s vision.”
The first part of Costner’s saga opened in Cannes in May before betting a theatrical release in the summer.
