HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA – Chapter 1

Director: Kevin Costner
Starring: Sienna Miller, Kevin Costner, Sam Worthington, Owen Crow Shoe, Abbey Lee, Ella Hunt, Tom Payne, Luke Wilson, Jena Malone, Tatanka Means, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Rooker, Will Patton, Jamie Campbell Bower

Kevin Costner has become synonymous with westerns from his Oscar winning directorial debut Dances with Wolves and the mega hit television series, Yellowstone. He’s now risking big with his multi-chapter, multi-film saga, Horizon: An American Saga. Kevin Costner plans on telling the full story of Horizon: An American Saga through four films with the first two out this summer. Chapter 1 acts as the prologue as he sets up four different narratives that he’ll follow. The story spans the four years of the Civil War from 1861-1865. It opens with a couple of white men plotting land in the San Pedro Valley. The native Apache tribe is not happy with the overtaking of their land and thus set out to burn it to the ground. Sienna Miller plays Frances Kittredge, one of the few surviving women who are left to relocate with her daughter with the help of US General Trent Gephardt (Worthington). In the Wyoming Territory, Jena Malone’s character fights for survival with her daughter, while Abbey Lee plays a sex worker who finds herself on the run with Kevin Costner’s character, Hayes Ellison, trying to protect her. Over on the Santa Fe Trail in Western Kansas, a British couple (Tom Payne and Ella Hunt) travel in hopes of a new beginning. They’re treated like outsiders by the leader of the wagon train played by Luke Wilson.

Here’s my review