Kevin Costner signs autographs as he departs the premiere of the film ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ at the 77th International Cannes Film Festival in southern France on Sunday, May 19, 2024. Photo Credit: AP

Kevin Costner premieres his movie Horizon: An American Saga On Sunday night at the Cannes Film Festival, he aims to make it into a four-part series, even though he’s not sure how he’ll finance it. The actor mortgaged his 10-acre waterfront property in California to help 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 raise money,” he said. 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.

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Costner’s previous credits in Westerns include his Oscar-winning dances with Wolves in the 1990s and more recently as the star of the five-season successful TV series yellowstone181 minute first part Horizon: An American SagaThe film will be released in North America, the UK, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands on June 28 in the first part, which will take place at Cannes, followed by the second part on August 16.