Why Kevin Costner Risked His Fortune, Reputation, and Personal Life for Horizon

Mostly, though, he has to answer the question “why?” over and over again. Why would Costner take this leap of faith, knowing the length of the commitment, the stresses and complications it would involve, and the potential financial losses? Perhaps one of the few people on the planet who can understand is Francis Ford Coppola, who, like Costner, revealed his expensive passion project at Cannes this year: Megalopolis.

“When you go into the unknown, you don’t want to say, ‘Oh, I wish I had done this or that.’ You want to say, ‘I have to do that,’” the filmmaker told Deadline in a moderated chat with Costner. The Horizon line The filmmaker agreed: “That’s how I feel about it.”

Costner filmed Horizon line.By Richard Foreman/Warner Bros.

But unlike Coppola, Costner isn’t close to finishing his gamble. He still has to find the financing to complete the franchise. And whatever happens when Chapter 1 bowing out at the box office, Costner vowed to complete the series. “I knew no matter what, I was going to do three,” he said. News. “And either way, I’ll get four.”

While he appears to be willing to make these films by any means necessary, a bad weekend will make it even harder for him to find additional financing for a series that is already unpopular with studios. While Costner says VF that he was working on Tuesday Horizon line film—fighting for more shooting days—Horizon co-star Sienna Miller said VF Filming of the third season, which she said is expected to take place sometime between August and November, has not yet been confirmed.

This weekend Horizon The premiere will prove something else: whether Costner’s off-screen life is more interesting to audiences than the story he painstakingly brought to life on screen. The making of the film coincided with the tumultuous breakup of his second marriage. Christine Baumgartner, with whom he has three children. The divorce made headlines last year when Baumgartner request more than $150,000 per month in child support, and the timing means Costner must answer questions about surviving this personal chapter while promoting Horizon. “It was a heartbreaking moment,” the filmmaker said King Gayle this week regarding his divorce, which was finalized in February. “It’s strong. It’s painful. But I still move forward.” When asked frankly by GQ Magazine Was the divorce motivated by horizon, or the circumstances surrounding its creation, Costner said, “No, they’re not relevant.”