Kevin Costner On Betting His Own Money For ‘Horizon: An American Saga’; Has Knocked On Every Yacht At Fest For Financing Part 3 – Cannes

As Horizon: An American Saga filmmaker Kevin Costner recently told Deadline, he’s on schedule to shell out $98M on this latest western trilogy and a fourth film will take over $100M.

Today the 2x Oscar winner expounded on gambling on his own vision with his own property.

“I’ve acquired — I don’t need four homes,” said Costner, “I’ll risk those homes to make my movies. I want to leave them to my children, but my children will have to live their own lives.”

“I don’t know why it’s so hard to get people to believe in the movie I wantd to make….I don’t think anybody’s else’s movie is better than mine. I made it for people.”

“It’s a pattern that happens with me — with Dances With Wolves, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Open Range – the things I want to make are harder to make,” he regaled.

“My problem is that I don’t fall out of love with something that’s good,” said the filmmaker actor about the projects he keeps in lengthy development.

“I’d like to come back here with my third movie,” said Costner about a future return to Cannes with Horizon part 3.

Costner has already shot three days of part 3. “I’m trying to make the third one. I knocked on every boat in Cannes to help me. The guys say ‘C’mon, we’ll get a picture, I said ‘No, get your checkbook out.”

He joked about the whole notion of hitting the red carpet at Cannes, “I use to get no money to do this, then I got paid a lot of money to do this, now I need to pay my own money to do this.”

Horizon returns Costner to the Western genre, chronicling 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

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 three hour movie received an 11 minute, 40 second standing ovation last night at its Cannes World Premiere.

Costner teased that part 4 of Horizon will have big Native American presence.