Three Trailers: Kevin Costner Rips Off Taylor Sheridan

By Jen Maravegias | Film | March 1, 2024 |

By Jen Maravegias | Film | March 1, 2024 |

Did you enjoy playing Oregon Trail as a child? Are you a fan of Dances With Wolves and the Yellowstone prequel, 1883? Then I’ve got a trailer for you! Get comfortable, because it’s three minutes long, almost as long as the cast list.

Horizon: An American Saga is Kevin Costner’s F U to Taylor Sheridan’s American West Saga Machine. And it’s the kind of F U that only someone with a net worth of around $400 million could put together. Directed and co-written by Costner, the two-part film also stars (deep breath) Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Owen Crow Shoe, Tatanka Means, Ella Hunt, Tim Guinee, Danny Huston, Colin Cunningham, Scott Haze, Tom Payne, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Will Patton, Georgia MacPhail, Douglas Smith, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Alejandro Edda, Wasé Winyan Chief, Michael Anganaro, Angus Macfadyen, Jon Beavers, Alex Nibley, Kathleen Quinlan, Etienne Kellici, Amos Jason Charging Cloud, Bodhi Okuma Linton, Gregory Cruz, James Russo, Jeff Fahey, David O’Hara, Chris Conner, Leroy M. Silva, Bernardo Velasco, Tom Everett, Glynn Turman, and Giovanni Ribisi.

Chapter One of Horizon: An American Saga opens in theaters on June 28th. Chapter Two premieres on August 16th.

The creepiness gene is strong in M. Night Shyamalan’s family. His daughter, Ishana Night Shyamalan, is directing an adaptation of A.M. Shine’s novel The Watchers that will be released later this year. Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell (Lovely, Dark, and Deep), Oliver Finnegan (Outlander), and Olwen Fouere (2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre) star. The synopsis sounds like something her father would write:

…a 28-year-old artist (Fanning) who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.

The Watchers opens in theaters on June 5 internationally and on June 7th in the US.

On paper The Girls On The Bus is totally my jam. It’s a story about women, politics, and journalism. It’s a little sexy, a little funny, and stars Carla Gugino as a reluctant mentor. The cast also includes Natasha Behnam, Christina Elmore (Fruitvale Station), Leslie Fray (The Sinner), Melissa Benoist, Scott Foley, Brandon Scott, Griffin Dunne, Mark Consuelos, Sara Gilbert, and Kyle Vincent Terry. We’ll see if this MAX series, inspired by Amy Chozick’s memoir, Chasing Hilary, lives up to its potential. It stands a good chance of devolving into a cheesy rom-com that serves up a lot of manufactured rah-rah sisterhood moments.

The ten-episode series begins streaming on MAX on March 14th.

This week’s laginappe is Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox. It’s a film so weird and dumb that it should skip theaters and go directly to streaming so we can all get high in the comfort of our own homes to watch it. It’s a film so mysterious that I could not find a Youtube link to the trailer, so you have to watch it here. You won’t regret it. If you do, we can just travel back in time a couple of minutes and stop you from watching it.