Kevin Costner co-wrote, produced, and directed the epic Western film Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (2024). The movie, which was originally designed as the first of four parts, premiered as part of the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2024, before it actually debuted in American cinemas on June 28, 2024. Shot in the midst of the Civil War, the film follows several characters—colonists, soldiers, and Native peoples—into the midst of the trials and tribulations of the American frontier. The story interweaves a range of narratives that discuss survival, war, and foreign invasion of Indigenous territory by immigrants.