Kevin Costner's Horizon project and where it's up to, plus Andrew Stanton

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1980s, Kevin Costner - pre-Dances With Wolves - first had the idea for what became the Horizon movie saga. A hugely-ambitious series of westerns, that he'd ultimately star in, co-write, and direct. By 2026, two films had been made, only one released, and around ten minutes shot of a third. So what's happened? For the second half of this episode, Simon is joined by director Andrew Stanton, chatting about his new film In The Blink Of An Eye. The pair chat science fiction, semi-colons, a fruity toy, John Carter, and a whole lot more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Simon Brew. I'm the founder of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the
0:06.8	Film Stories podcast. I'm on tour. I've got things going on sale. So let me put a couple of dates
0:13.0	in your diary and then I'll get going. 13th of March, 2026. I'm introducing a screening of the
0:20.2	brilliant alien on stage at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham.
0:24.5	Tickets on sale there at MacBurmingham, M-A-C-Burmingham.com.uk.
0:29.6	Then Wednesday, well, Thursday the 19th, I'm good at this.
0:33.7	Thursday the 19th at March, I'm at Rich Mix in London presenting a Film Stories live show
0:39.5	and then on Wednesday the 25th of March I'm in Birmingham doing one as well. If you go to
0:44.4	Filmstories.com.ukuk, click on live events. Tickets have just gone on sale. Hope to see lots of you.
0:50.8	I'll be even more boring in person. Let's roll the titles. Come with me. And I show you
0:58.1	how deep the rabbit hole goes. In movies. Movies that had stories. That the story just
1:04.3	sucks a man. This is just the beginning. We be honoured if you would join us.
1:14.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:18.6	I am Simon Brew as always. That's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:22.6	The aim of the podcast though is given away by the title.
1:24.6	I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about marketing stories, distribution stories, release stories, production stories, all the ingredients, really, that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films I tend to cover on this podcast, leave more towards the mainstream than anything else. So films I'm interested in
1:44.2	or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast is a
1:49.7	celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow films managed to get made.
1:57.3	Film Stories is also a very proud part of the Film Stories podcast network, a network of over 40 shows across films, TV and gaming.
2:05.0	If you go to FilmStories.com.com. Hit the podcast drop down. You'll see a whole bunch of film stories podcast network shows there, as well as this one too.
2:15.7	So, with regards this one, what you've happened upon is a bit of a
2:19.7	mix. You get a regular film story and a conversation with a filmmaker. And I'm going to start with
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