Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ Gets 11-Minute Ovation At Its Cannes World Premiere
Kevin Costner‘s Western epic Horizon: An American Saga had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, getting an 11-minute, 40-second ovation after the credits began rolling at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.
The three-hour movie is the first chapter of a planned four-part series directed by and starring Costner, who soaked in the applause along his fellow stars including Sienna Miller, Alejandro Edda, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Georgia MacPhail, Ella Hunt, Isabelle Fuhrman, Wasé Chief, Luke Wilson and Costner’s son Hayes Logan Costner.
Costner waved at the crowd and seemed humbled by the applause tonight. “There’s no place like here — I’ll never forget this,” he told the audience in brief remarks. “I made this [movie] … it’s not mine anymore this is yours, and I knew that the minute it was over.”
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is due to hit theaters June 28 via Warner Bros, with the second coming on its heels August 16. Costner told Deadline recently that Chapter 3 begins production this month.
The film, which returns Costner to the Western genre, chronicles the expansion of the American West before and after the Civil War. Between the Native Americans who saw their lands getting colonized and those who were determined to settle there, sometimes at any cost, history is being written.
Elsa’s Tragic Fate
Nothing could stop a young woman like Elsa from exploring life, love, and the landscape. But in the end, even she had to succumb to the evil and was killed by a tragic misunderstanding. In the final moment of “1883,” we saw James and Elsa sitting under a tree as Elsa awaited her death. James promised her that they would settle in the mountains of Montana and never leave her.
The Duttons’ Legacy
And so the story ended, and we learned that the tragic loss of a daughter brought the Duttons to Montana and gave their land a special value. From that point to the present, much remains shrouded in mystery. In a brief flashback in Yellowstone Season 4, we learned that James was killed defending his ranch from bandits. It also showed that John Dutton Sr. had a brother and had to take over responsibility for the family very young.
