Kevin Costner Isn't Giving Up on ‘Horizon’: “Ultimately We Are Going to Release Four Movies”

Over on r/blankies, the subreddit for the Blank Check podcast, a user shared a quick encounter with the man himself over the weekend:

Yesterday at work I happened to meet Kevin Costner in passing. I told him I’m excited for Horizon part II. He started grinning and said, “I’m excited that you want to see it! Before you see part II you need to watch the first one again. Ultimately we are going to release four.” He seemed quite optimistic about the release of the second instalment.

Take it with a grain of salt. It's a Reddit post, not a press release. But it sounds exactly like Costner. He's been promising four films since 2022. Only one has come out.

Optimistic is one word for it. Back in May, a Warner Bros. source told me ‘Chapter 2’ wasn't coming out in 2026. It was “not in the plans.” The film has been finished for two years. It has played exactly twice: Venice in September 2024 and Santa Barbara in February 2025. That's it.

My source said the lawsuits had “frozen” the release. One is over unpaid costume rentals. The other was brought by a stunt performer. I haven't heard anything since that suggests the situation has changed, and here we are in late October with no date on the calendar. Maybe the Ellison era shakes something up. Who knows.

If there's any hope, it's streaming. ‘Chapter 1’ made just $38M worldwide in theaters, but it found a real audience on Prime Video this year. That's the business case for ‘Chapter 2,’ if there is one. And it points to a streaming release, not a theatrical one.

‘Chapters 3 and 4’ are a different story. Costner shot roughly a week of ‘Chapter 3’ before the money dried up. He's been to Saudi Arabia pitching officials on financing. There's also that Utah studio deal. None of it has gotten cameras rolling again.

Most directors would have moved on by now. Costner, meanwhile, is telling random people to rewatch a three-hour Western to get ready for a sequel that's been sitting on a shelf for two years. Delusional? Stubborn? Maybe both? I do hope we eventually get to see the second instalment— there’s no reason for it to be gathering up dust.