Kevin Costner‘s “Horizon” saga may be on a bit of forced hiatus, but it looks like he’ll have another work within the interim. Deadline stories that the actor will star in, co-write, and co-produce the upcoming surfer thriller “Headhunters,” the characteristic directorial debut of “Missing” DP Steven Holleran. Primarily based on the synopsis, the upcoming movie couldn’t be extra totally different than “Horizion”: a lean, imply survivalist drama set within the south Pacific.
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Within the movie, Costner will play a mysterious American ex-pat who washes up in Bali, Indonesia. After he falls in with a gaggle of surfers in pursuit of the right wave, a neighborhood photographer leads them to uncharted island — the place an historic tribe of headhunters dwell that may defend their land at any price. One imagines the place the set-up goes from there: plenty of brutal deaths and various bloodshed.
“Station Eleven” actor Daniel Zovatto will star in “Headhunters” alongside Costner. Costner co-produces by means of his Territory Footage banner with Scott Steindorff of Stone Village Movies. Coincidentally, Steindroff additionally government produced “Station Eleven,” which can be the place Zovatto’s casting comes from. Different producers on the pic embody Costner’s Territory companion Howard Kaplan, and Stone Village’s Dylan Russell, Lindsay Davis, and Stacey Woods.
A query looms over the “Headhunters” information: how will this manufacturing have an effect on Costner wrapping up “Horizon: An American Saga”? After “Part 2” had its world premiere on the Venice Movie Competition, it stays unclear if Costner will get to proceed on together with his deliberate final two elements and full the saga. Warner Bros. doesn’t look too eager about serving to fund the undertaking. The studio pulled “Part 2” from an August theatrical launch after “Part 1” had a dismal field workplace run this summer time. The discharge plans for “Part 2” presently stay unknown.
Regardless of that, Costner sounds hopeful about finishing his long-gestating movie collection. “I don’t know how I’m gonna make 3 right now, but I’m gonna make it,” he instructed Deadline at Venice. Creating the primary three “Horizon” movies has already price Costner $98 million; a fourth “will push me over $100 million,” stated the actor. If Costner needs to finish “Horizon” any time quickly, he ought to in all probability take some studio gigs to repay the big debt the undertaking has him in as an alternative of stuff like “Headhunters.” However possibly “Part 3” and “Part 4” are nearer to realization than the general public realizes…
In any case, anticipate “Headhunters” in theaters someday in 2025.
