Kevin Costner Is Reportedly Hoping Netflix Will Offer Him “A Big Check” For ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ After The Film’s Box Office Flop
Kevin Costner is reportedly looking to Netflixto “bail” him out of the financially stressful situation he’s allegedly found himself in with his passion project, Horizon: An American Saga.
Sources told Life & Style that the former Yellowstone star — who directed, co-wrote, starred in and personally bankrolled the Horizon films — is hoping the series’ “excellent” viewership numbers on Netflix will entice the streamer to cut him a check to complete the saga.
An unnamed source who worked closely with Costner on the films told the outlet, “Kevin is good at projecting calm, experience and a generally level head, but behind the scenes the whole Horizon project has been stressful to him financially, physically and even intellectually.”
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter Oneearned just $38 million in the international box office to a $100 million budget when it premiered in June 2024, but the source claimed to Life & Style that Costner is feeling more optimistic about the “excellent” viewership Chapter One has found on Netflix.
“Kevin and his team need it to perform because right now, Netflix is the only company with deep enough pockets to completely bail him out of the hole Kevin has dug for himself with these movies,” the inside source claimed. With Netflix’s help, Costner will be able to finish the final two installments of the series “without having to cut too many corners,” the source added.
The source even went so far as to claim that “the expectation around town and even within Kevin’s Hollywood circle is that Netflix will eventually step up and buy the rights to the whole series and take Kevin out of debt.”
Costner is reportedly “in an eight-figure hole on this project,” according to the source, and finally has “some hope that Netflix will bail him out and expose the films to viewers all over the world.”
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 chronicles 15 years of Western expansion before and after the Civil War through an eclectic group of characters, starring Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and more.
The actor has been open about his financial stake in the films (which Deadline estimates will be north of $100 million after all four films are completed). He once pretended to shoot himself during a live appearance on Today With Hoda & Jenna when Jenna Bush Hager mentioned that he mortgaged his home to finance the film.
“[I did] more than that, more than that,” he admitted. “If there’s a way for me to fulfill a dream, if I have to look to myself, I do.”
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One is streaming now on Netflix.
