The Big Picture Kevin Costner and the Western seem to go hand in hand. His directorial debut, Dances With Wolves, nabbed seven Oscars and cemented him as a rising filmmaker, while Yellowstone revitalized his career. Now Costner looks to repeat the process with Horizon: An American Saga, the first of four films in his Western epic series. But Costner has had his fair share of film flameouts, and the biggest might be The Postman.
Costner would further endear himself in Brin's eyes by reworking the script that Eric Roth had turned in. Roth apparently went "out of his way to reverse every moral point" of the original novel, according to Brin, so Costner and Brian Helgeland wrote a script that returned to Brin's more hopeful outlook on a post-apocalyptic society. A key example is the final fight between the postman and General Bethlehem , who leads a militaristic cult.
Kevin Costner Missed Out on a Role That Went to Harrison Ford Prior to The Postman, Costner was still dealing with the fallout from his other post-apocalyptic Waterworld. Not only did Waterworld turn out to be one of the most costly movies in Hollywood history, but it was also riddled with production disasters that ranged from injured actors to tsunamis. Waterworld also led to Costner's star dimming, but he still locked horns with Warner Bros.
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