Kevin Costner To Star In First Film Since His “Horizon” Flop, & It’s A Comedy From The ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ Team

Kevin Costner back on the big screen.

We haven’t heard much out of the 70-year-old actor as of late. Obviously, his John Dutton character was written out of Yellowstone with only a few episodes remaining in the flagship series, and that was all because he had prioritized his own passion project – Horizon: An American Saga.

How’d that work out for him, you ask? Not well.

Horizon: An American Saga was supposed to be a four-part 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. The Hollywood Reporter first shared that the second movie in the planned four-part series would no longer hit theaters.

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.

It was a little risky to plan – and basically go ahead and execute – a four-part movie series before giving audiences a chance to see if they like it. With the struggles of “Chapter One,” Costner and his movie crew opted to pull “Chapter Two” from the release calendar. According to the reports, the 70-year-old actor and director sat down with Territory Pictures and their distribution partner, New Line Cinema, and ultimately made the decision to delay the second film.

Now that we’re over a year since that happened, with no real further updates, it’s looking like Horizon: An American Saga might not ever finish out it’s four-part run.

The good news is that the flop may have slowed down Kevin Costner, but it didn’t stop him entirely. Amazon MGM Studios just announced that the former Yellowstone star has accepted a role in an upcoming dramedy film titled Honeymoon with Harry.

The two-time Oscar winner will star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, and the story focuses on a man (played by Gyllenhaal) who loses his fiancée days before their wedding and decides to still go on the planned honeymoon with his would-have-been father-in-law (played by Costner).

Though it’s likely that Kevin Costner will play the comedic straight man in the film, it’s still a departure from many of the serious roles that he’s taken on ever since he helped Yellowstone become one of the hottest TV shows in the world with his performance as John Dutton.

That being said, he’s no stranger to comedy. Costner has starred in a number of different comedic films, like Bull Durham and Tin Cup. It’s just notably been a while since he’s taken that challenge on… so it’ll be interesting to see him star opposite of Jake Gyllenhaal in this dramedy that will likely hit theaters – or Amazon Prime Video – within the next couple of years.

Maybe a successful run with Honeymoon with Harry could get Costner’s plans with Horizon: An American Saga back on track?The post Kevin Costner To Star In First Film Since His “Horizon” Flop, & It’s A Comedy From The ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ Team first appeared on Whiskey Riff.