What movie is Kevin Costner filming in Utah? (2024)

What movie is Kevin Costner filming in Utah?

Kevin Costner's new two-part, Utah-filmed Western epic release dates announced. SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4

Kevin Costner is in the process of completing Horizon, a Western saga that is set to play out over the course of two separate films (and possibly more down the road).

"Destined at Christmas 2" is a "homegrown" sequel to the holiday film of the same name that premiered in 2022. The sequel is currently being filmed in Utah County and will be distributed through the Great American Family cable television network. Production is estimated to pump $447,517 into Utah County.

Costner was in Utah for the Paramount series "Yellowstone" when his new Western series — "Horizon" — was born. "He shot the first part of this production in and around Moab, San Juan, Emery County throughout last summer and fall, and he's just in pre-production to shoot part two," Pearce said.

| Updated: Oct. 6, 2023, 11:55 a.m. The first two parts of actor-director Kevin Costner's Western epic “Horizon: An American Saga,” which were filmed in southern Utah, have been given release dates, Warner Bros. Pictures announced Thursday.

What is the release date? Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 will be released in theaters on June 28, 2024. Chapter 2 will follow just under two months later, on August 16, 2024.

Costner's upcoming four-film series, "Horizon, an American Saga," has already filmed its firm part in the Moab area and will now move to southwestern Utah for its next two parts, according to the Utah Film Commission. The two films are scheduled to be filmed in various parts of Washington County during 2023.

A high-profile film project is underway in Moab right now: Director Kevin Costner is using Southeast Utah for much of the filming of his multipart Western epic, Horizon: An American Saga.

Why did Yellowstone stop filming in Utah?

Most of season 4 was filmed in Montana.

The decision to stop any production in Utah was largely financial, because the state's "limited tax incentive program will not provide [the show] with the same rebates" they previously received.

Aspen, Colorado

While Kevin's Santa Barbara properties are certainly impressive, his 160-acre vacation home in Aspen might just be the jewel of his collection. Dubbed Dunbar Ranch in honor of his Dances with Wolves character, the estate features 12 rooms and comfortably sleeps 27 people.

The ranch is available to rent now, through the winter, and comes with round-the-clock caretakers on site. ET visited the Dunbar Ranch back in 2004 for Costner's wedding to his wife, Christine Baumgartner.

Production for the second film was commenced by April 2023, with Glynn Turman, Kathleen Quinlan and Giovanni Ribisi joining Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Ella Hunt, Will Patton, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman and Thomas Haden Church, who continue on from the first film.

While it's been announced that he plans on exiting the series, Costner's initial Yellowstone salary was $500,000 per episode. After Yellowstone became a massive hit, Variety reported in 2022 that Costner's Yellowstone salary was bumped up to $1.3 million per episode.

Pictures has announced the release dates of Kevin Costner's new Utah-filmed Western epic, “Horizon: An American Saga.” Chapter 1 and 2 of the Yellowstone star's two-part film series, a pet project which took him 35 years to get made, according to ScreenRant, will be coming to theaters June 28, 2024 and August 16, 2024.

In an interview with Huffington Post in 2008, he was asked about being a registered Republican until the 1996 election, which is when he changed his registration to Independent and mostly voted Democrat after that. "I'm not a Republican," he said. "I basically was raised in a house that was a Republican house.

As Yellowstone airs season 2 episodes on CBS on Sunday nights, people absolutely love to seeing how Kayce Dutton's relationship with his wife Monica plays. But in real life, Luke Grimes is happily in love with model Bianca Rodrigues, who is clearly also head-over-heels for her man.

Baumgartner filed for divorce on May 1, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the split, as did Costner in his response filed the next day. They both requested joint custody of their three children together, sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and daughter Grace, 13.

Costner will not be officially replaced, in the sense that no other actor will step into the role of John Dutton III. But, as Deadline reported in February, the franchise's “extension” would instead be led by McConaughey in an as-yet-undisclosed role.

Has Kevin Costner quit?

In September 2023, Costner finally broke his silence on the issue, and confirmed that he would in fact be leaving Yellowstone—but the reason was a lot simpler than you would expect. Here, the real story on why the actor is exiting Yellowstone.

When Aria Eubank convinces a famous travel writer to do a feature story on her beloved hometown, Midway, Utah, it looks like the town's tourism drop is about to be reversed.

Utah's unique landscape — from its salt desert to the mountain peaks of the Rockies to red rocks of all shapes — has made the state a popular backdrop for filmmakers since the era of Hollywood's beloved Westerns. On screen, Utah has slipped into countless roles, sometimes as different states or even different planets.

'Christmas Land' (2015)

This made-for-tv Hallmark movie was fully filmed in Utah.

Costner's upcoming four-film series, "Horizon, an American Saga," has already filmed its firm part in the Moab area and will now move to southwestern Utah for its next two parts, according to the Utah Film Commission. The two films are scheduled to be filmed in various parts of Washington County during 2023.