Kevin Costner's Horizon Update: Chapter 2 Is MIA, But Chapter 3's Already Rolling
For now, Chapter 2 remains unreleased, Chapter 3 is halfway done, and Costner's still charging ahead. Whether the rest of the world catches up is another story.
Kevin Costner's four-part Western epic Horizon: An American Saga is still stuck in Hollywood limbo — at least when it comes to Chapter 2. After Chapter 1 flopped at the box office last June, Warner Bros. quietly pulled Chapter 2 from its scheduled August 2024 theatrical release. But behind the scenes, Costner's already deep into filming Chapter 3.
Actor Danny Huston, who appears in the series, recently told Screen Rant that production on Chapter 3 was well underway before the cameras stopped rolling.
"I think he's got a lot of Chapter 3 in the can, actually," Huston said. He also added, "There's no stopping him… this dream of his is coming to life in a spectacular way."
That's good news for a franchise that's been anything but stable. Chapter 1 flopped theatrically but performed well on streaming — just enough to keep hope alive for Chapter 2. A handful of critics caught the sequel at select film festivals, but it's still without a distributor or release date.
And then there are the lawsuits.
Three are currently active: two involve unpaid production fees, and the third is a sexual harassment claim tied to an unplanned sex scene in Chapter 2.
None of them help the odds of that film making it to theaters anytime soon.
Costner has reportedly sunk over $100 million of his own money into the Horizon saga, betting big on a personal Western passion project that so far hasn't paid off commercially. While fans continue to ask where Chapter 2 is, Costner's clearly betting on the long game — with most of Chapter 3 already shot and Chapter 4 still on the table.