Luke Wilson Joins Kevin Costner’s Western Epic ‘Horizon’

Justin Kroll
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EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Costner’s latest venture to the western frontier continues to build on its ensemble cast, as sources tell Deadline that Luke Wilson has boarded Horizon, the new Western epic Costner is starring in and directing. Costner will also produce through his Territory Pictures Inc., and he penned the script with Jon Baird.

Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington and Jamie Campbell Bower are also on board to star in the movie, which comes from Warner Bros and New Line.

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Horizon chronicles a multi-faceted 15-year span of pre- and 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 indigenous peoples who lived on the land, and the determination and at many times ruthlessness of those who sought to settle it.

Costner returns to directing for the first time since his 2003 box office hit Open Range. With Horizon, Costner revisits Civil War-era America, the setting for his 1990 blockbuster directorial debut and multi-Oscar-winning feature Dances With Wolves, in which he starred as well as produced and directed. The film won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Insiders say Wilson was one of the first actors to meet on the project and instantly hit it off with Costner, who quickly offering him a role. Wilson is repped by WME.

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