Kevin Costner & Cale Glendening: The Great Horizon

Join us for an in-person event with Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Costner, who will be discussing the new book The Great Horizon: Photographing Kevin Costner's American Saga, the official behind-the-scenes photography book documenting the making of his acclaimed films Horizon: An American Saga Chapters One and Two.

Kevin will be joined by photographer & author Cale Glendening for an exclusive, pre-pub date discussion of the book. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

All tickets will include a copy of the book.

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Explore the characters and locations of Kevin Costner’s Western film opus, Horizon: An American Saga Chapters One and Two, through Cale Glendening’s intimate cast portraits and behind-the-scenes photography.

Horizon: An American Saga Is Kevin Costner’s beautiful and complex look at the settling of the West, exploring the lure of the frontier and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Channeling classic Western photography with gorgeous images in both black-and-white and color, photographer Cale Glendening offers a deeper look into each of the characters of Horizon. Shooting each member of the cast between takes on set, these portraits give readers an intimate glimpse into what it takes to inhabit such a harsh western landscape. This extraordinary collection also features glorious location photography to complete the vision of Horizon. Featuring more than 250 spectacular, never-before-seen images, essays and reflections on filming from the cast and crew, script excerpts, and a foreword by Kevin Costner, The Great Horizon is a thrilling ode to the art of filmmaking. This is the perfect gift for fans of moviemaking, fine art photography, and the Old West.

EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL: Features never-before-seen portraits of cast members in character and behind the scenes including Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Luke Wilson, Abbey Lee, Sam Worthington, Isabelle Fuhrmann, Tatanka Means, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jena Malone, Michael Rooker, Danny Houston, Owen Crow Shoe, Giovanni Ribisi, Tom Payne, Will Patton, and Ella Hunt.

STUNNING IMAGES: Curated from photos shot throughout Horizon's filming, this remarkable volume features photographs of the cast in an emotionally raw state between takes and beautiful location photography shot across Utah.

UNPARALLELED COLLECTOR’S ITEM: Singular and unprecedented, The Great Horizon is a powerful tribute to the films that offer fans a rare glimpse into the creation of a vast western saga.

While working at the famed Raleigh Studios and taking acting classes at night, Kevin Costner’s career in film officially began when he landed a role in the ensemble drama The Big Chill. Although he would not make the final cut in the film, it would set the stage for starring roles in a string of seminal films, the first of which being coming of age comedy, Fandango.

Throughout his career, Costner has varied his choices with comedy, action and drama roles. He has appeared in such popular box-office hits as Silverado, No Way Out, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, The Bodyguard and Wyatt Earp. Costner’s exceptional filmmaking abilities were showcased in Dances with Wolves, which he produced, directed and starred in, and which won seven Academy Awards including “Best Picture” and “Best Director.” In addition to appearing in memorable roles in JFK, The Untouchables and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he re-teamed with his Bull Durham director Ron Shelton for the hit feature Tin Cup.

Costner also starred in Thirteen Days, successfully collaborating again with his No Way Out director Roger Donaldson. His other film credits include For Love of the Game,The War, 3,000 Miles to Graceland, Dragonfly and The Postman, his second directing effort. Kevin Costner last directed the box office hit and critically acclaimed film Open Range, which he also co-starred in alongside Robert Duvall and Annette Bening.

Costner co-starred with Joan Allen in the dramatic film Upside of Anger, opposite Jennifer Aniston in Rumor Has It directed by Rob Reiner for Warner Brothers, The Guardian, an action drama for Touchstone Pictures in which he portrayed a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, the thriller Mr. Brooks, and he starred in Touchstone Pictures’ political comedy Swing Vote.

Costner also starred in the History Channel’s record-setting mini-series The Hatfields and McCoys: An American Vendetta in which he portrayed “Devil” Anse Hatfield, the patriarch of the famed clan, opposite Bill Paxton. He also served as a producer of the series, which received 16 Emmy Award nominations, winning the Best Actor in a mini- series or movie Emmy for Costner. He also received the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance.

Most recently Costner was seen in the Warner Bros. film Superman: Man of Steel, as the superhero’s father Jonathan Kent; co-starred with Chris Pine in Jack Ryan, Paramount Pictures’ revival of the Tom Clancy franchise; the spy thriller Three Days to K*ll for Relativity Media; the football inspired Draft Day, directed by Ivan Reitman; the track team drama McFarland for Disney; the drama Black & White, which he produced and co-starred with Octavia Spencer; Criminal, in which he co-starred with Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones and Ryan Reynolds; and Hidden Figures, in which he co-starred with Taraji Henson, Octavia Spencer and Jenelle Monae, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble; the true-crime drama The Highwaymen opposite Woody Harrelson for Netflix; and the thriller Let Him Go, co-starring Diane Lane and directed by Tom Bezucha.

In addition, he starred in and executive produced the Paramount Network’s hit-drama, Yellowstone, a role for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama.

Currently, Costner is directing, producing and starring in Horizon: An American Saga, a multi-faceted, years-long span of post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West. Experienced through the eyes of many, the epic journey is fraught with peril and intrigue from the constant onslaught of natural elements to the interactions with the Native American people who lived on the land and the determination and at many times ruthlessness of those who sought to settle it.

Through his Territory Pictures, he also serves as executive producer of the Civil War spy drama The Gray House, a six-hour limited series for Paramount +. Costner also produced and co-authored the New York Times bestselling adventure novel The Explorers Guild.

When Costner is not working on films, he sings lead vocals and plays lead guitar in his band, Modern West, and can be seen playing venues across the country. The band recently recorded a collection of songs from and inspired by Yellowstone entitled Tales From Yellowstone, the follow-up to their Hatfields & McCoys inspired album Famous For Killing Each Other. The band’s song “The Angels Came Down” from their album Turn It On, was adopted by the Gold Star Moms and Gold Star Wives organizations, which support the mothers, wives and families of fallen soldiers.

Cale Glendening is a director and writer who has spent the last decade traveling the world, filming on five continents in more than forty countries. His short film, Why You Don’t Send Nudes, premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Nashville Film Festival. Cale is currently directing a feature series for Kevin Costner’s opus, Horizon: An American Saga, and has episodic projects in both scripted and unscripted series.

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