Ismael Garcia Delgado
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Horizon: An American Saga and Yellowstone They are Kevin Costner’s most recent works in the western genre. The film presented this year at the Cannes Film Festival represents Costner’s dream project. He invested all his savings, abandoned work on the successful series and has already filmed the first two installments of the ambitious plan.
Let’s hope this period epic manages to position itself well when it hits theaters. And so, avoid a new fall on the part of the actor in films that turned out to be failures, an issue that cost him dearly in the 90’s and even worse, within the same film genre.
It was in 1994 when Costner starred in Wyatt Earpa film in which he played the legendary gunfighter under the direction of Lawrence Kasdan. The story tells the life of Western lawyer Wyatt Earp, who is taught from an early age that nothing matters more than family and the law. He becomes a respected sheriff in Dodge City and Tombstone declaring war on the feared Clanton and McLaury gangs.
Although the premise may be epic biopic, the execution was due. The 190-minute work was not enough to please critics or the public, since Of a budget of 63 million dollars, it only managed to raise 56 million. So he felt personally affected when the film failed at the box office.
Added to this is the competition with the so-called “twin films”, in this case, the film Tombstone (Justice Is Coming) directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Kurt Russell but which was about the same historical figure.
However, failure at the hands of Costner is something that still bothers the actor. In an interview for GQcommented that “loves the movie but they entered into a kind of competition with Tombstone.”
“A good friend told me, ‘Look, we can delay this movie. We don’t want to compete.’ And I said, ‘Look. I’m sure this writer and director does want to make this movie, let them.’ space race. I have always regretted this strange competition.”
Kevin Costner for GQ.
He ended by explaining that “It’s a shame it turned out the way it did.“. Now it remains a bittersweet memory but it means a setback in his career.. If, on the other hand, you are looking for a quality product starring Costner, you can enjoy the series Yellowstone through your subscription to Netflix, Paramount+ or Claro Video.
