CANNES, France – Kevin Costner premiered his film “Horizon: An American Saga” at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night with the goal of making it into a four-part series, though he’s not sure how he’ll finance it. do.

The actor mortgaged 10 acres of his waterfront property in California to finance the project, which tells of the challenges faced by settlers expanding into the American West in the late 1800s. But financing may still not be enough.

“It’s been very hard. And it’s not over yet,” said Costner, who began filming on the third chapter before heading to Cannes. “I have to arrange the money,” he told Reuters in an interview at the festival.

Even actors compare themselves with the characters they have portrayed in their films.

“I’m just like people who go west,” Costner said. Of the challenges of creating the series, he said, “I had to figure it out because no one would really help me.”

He starred in, directed, produced, and co-wrote the first film, which covers the 15-year period before and after the Civil War of 1861–1865, when white settlers took land from American Indians to settle in the United States West. Had expanded towards.

Costner’s previous credits in Westerns include the Oscar-winning “Dances with Wolves” in 1990 and most recently as the star of the successful five-season TV series “Yellowstone.”

The 181-minute first part of “Horizon: An American Saga”, following the competition in Cannes, will be released in North America, the UK, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands on June 28, followed by the second part on August 16. ,

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