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Kevin Costner Loves Being in Westerns So Much He’s Working on Making a 10-Hour Oater

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Sure, playing a NASA honcho in Hidden Figures is nice and all, but Kevin Costner has dreams of returning to another frontier. Costner — the star of Silverado, Open Range, and Dances With Wolves — still has more to say about cowboys, gunslingers, pioneers, and their ilk. Costner told Variety that he’s been “working on†another Western, and it is 10 hours long. Perhaps realizing that a feature of that length would take longer to watch than looping Waterworld three times (a feat no human should attempt, even if they are trapped on a boat in a postapocalyptic world), Costner conceded that the epic oater could be divided up. “Maybe I’ll make three features out of it,†Costner said. “There’s a fourth one, too, so it’s truly a saga. I could do TV, or I could also make it like every six months, have a big western that’s tied together like Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring. I think those are fun to watch.†So, there you have it, Hollywood. Costner is ready to buckle his holster and hop on a horse for a TV series, film franchise, or ten-hour epic, whenever you are.

Kevin Costner Wants to Make a 10-Hour Western