Kevin Costner mortgages home to make Western epic films after Hollywood rejected him

Director Kevin Costner at the screening of the film 'Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1' Out of competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 19, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Kevin Costner told AFP he's an "outsider" in Hollywood, which is why he had to stake millions of his own money on the sprawling Western, Horizon, an American Saga, that he's been trying to make since the 1980s.

Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, where the first part of the saga was getting its world premiere on Sunday (May 19), the 69-year-old said he wrote the screenplay way back in 1988.