Kevin Costner Is Set To Executive Produce Another Western Series, ‘The Gray House’

Kevin Costner isn’t done with the western genre just yet.

Obviously, Costner couldn’t have asked for a better blessing than Yellowstone. An argument could be made that the Taylor Sheridan series put some juice back into Costner’s career… that is until his John Dutton character was written out of Yellowstone with only a few episodes remaining in the flagship series.

And before that, the 70-year-old has had plenty of success with movies and televisions shows within the western realm. Silverado (1985) and Dances with Wolves (1990) are two of the most prominent examples, and now, it looks like Costner is going to try out the western genre again by executive producing a new series for Amazon Prime Video titled The Gray House.

The Civil War-era show, also produced by Morgan Freeman, will star Mary-Louise Parker, Daisy Head, and Paul Anderson, and Deadline explains the premise as the following:

“The drama focuses on the true story of a group of unsung women, a Virginia socialite, her mother, a formerly enslaved sister-in-arms, and the city’s most notorious courtesan. They operate deep inside the corridors of Confederate power and transform an underground railroad into an effective underground spy network, risking life and liberty.”

Its series premiere is set for February of next year.

This news comes after Kevin Costner implied that he was going to stay away from the western genre for a while. His most recent endeavor was his own passion project: Horizon: An American Saga. Spoiler alert, that didn’t work out all that well. The saga was supposed to be a four-part, western-theatrical series… and it only made it through it’s first part. “Chapter Two” of Horizon: An American Saga was pulled from its original August 2024 theatrical release after the first installment’s poor performance.

Why? Well, to be frank, it’s because the saga’s first chapter performed abysmally at the box office. Horizon’s maiden voyage at the movies only made $11 million in its opening weekend. That obviously means the film fell short of expectations, considering that Costner had put forth $38 million of his own money for his passion project, and the first film’s budget came in around $100 million.

Horizon’s box office disaster made it seem as though Costner was going to rethink going full-western in the future. In an interview with Radio Times, the acting icon suggested that he’s still very much interested in creating new things, but they might not be like what he’s been busy with in the past decade or so:

“(I’m) willing to do anything where I feel like what I’m doing is for myself. It doesn’t have to be a Western, it could be something else. But when something is no longer interesting to me, or there’s some other reason that I need to move on, I’m willing to do that…

I think the hope for me is that I can stay relevant; not only to myself, but to people who find my work. I can’t create work that I think is going to find them. I can only create work that when they do find it, it reflects what I was feeling and my sensibility. And hopefully they’re moved by it.”

Costner just said that back in September, so it seems like he’s either had a change of heart, or he feels really good about the story that’s laid out in Amazon Prime Video’s The Gray House.The post Kevin Costner Is Set To Executive Produce Another Western Series, ‘The Gray House’ first appeared on Whiskey Riff.