Why Kevin Costner risked his fortune, reputation and personal life for Horizon

For the most part, though, he had to answer repeated “why?” Why did Costner take this leap of faith, knowing the long-term commitment, the stress and complications it would cause, and the possible financial loss? Perhaps one of the few people on the planet who can understand is Francis Ford Coppola, who, like Costner, revealed his own expensive passion project at Cannes this year: big urban area.

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

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

But unlike Coppola, Costner isn’t done gambling yet. He still has to find the financing to complete the franchise. And no matter what happens when Chapter 1 bowing out at the box office, Costner vowed to finish the series. “I knew no matter what, I was going to do three parts,” he said IndieWire. “And by hook or by trick, I will make four.”

While he’s made it seem like he’ll make these movies by any means necessary, a bad weekend will make it even harder for him to find more funding for a series of films that studios don’t want. While Costner says FOR EXAMPLE that he was working on Tuesday Horizon line film—fighting for more shooting days—Horizon line co-star Sienna Miller said VF Filming on the third season, which she said was supposed to take place from August to November, has yet to be confirmed.

This weekend Horizon line The premiere will prove something else: whether Costner’s off-screen life is more interesting to audiences than the story he worked so hard to bring to the screen. The making of the film coincided with the tumultuous breakup of his second marriage. Christine Baumgartner, with whom he shares three children. The divorce made headlines last year when Baumgartner request more than $150,000 a month in child support, and the timing meant Costner had to answer questions about surviving this personal chapter while promoting Horizon line. “It was a heartbreaking moment,” the filmmaker said. King Gayle this week regarding his divorce, which was finalized in February. “It’s very powerful. Painful. But I’m moving forward.” When asked bluntly by GQ Was the divorce prompted by Horizon, or the circumstances surrounding its creation, Costner said, “No, they’re irrelevant.”