Open Range
Here ’s where Kevin Costner ’s underrated 2003 westernOpen Rangewas shot . Kevin Costner has a long chronicle with the westerly genre , with his first breakout persona being the 1985 ensembleSilveradowith Kevin Kline and Scott Glenn . One of the high spot of Costner ’s life history was starring and directingDances With Wolves , where he plays an army officer who joins an Indian tribe . The movie was pegged in the press as a vanity task that was destine to miscarry prior to release , but it was both a huge critical and commercial-grade achiever . It also get ahead Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards , controversially crush out Martin Scorcese mobster masterpieceGoodfellas .
Kevin Costner ’s next western outing was n’t so heartily received , however . He played the title role in 1994 biopicWyatt Earp , cover the legendary lawman ’s entire life . Despite a great cast , the film was an overlong , self - serious slog . It also came out after 1993’sTombstone , another Earp western star Kurt Russell . Ironically , Costner was originally signed on toTombstoneonly to impart over creative remainder with writer / film director Kevin Jarre . When the film was being set up with Russell elsewhere , Costner reportedly used his then considerable pull to immobilise financing avenues for it .
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Kevin Costner ’s last directorial effort to date is 2003’sOpen Range , where he star alongside Robert Duvall ( The Godfather ) as cattlemen who attempt revenge on a land baron and a crooked sheriff after they assail their crew . The movie was solid hit during release but despite seldom getting mentioned now , it ’s the kind of older - fashioned , handsomely bestride western that seldom gets made anymore .
Open Rangealso sport some beautiful landscape painting and scene , but despite being set in Montana the movie shoot entirely in Canada . primal locations include the Stoney Indian Reservation in Alberta , alongside other locations like Morley and Longview ; other westerns like Clint Eastwood’sUnforgivenor Tom Selleck’sMonte Walshalso shoot in the latter position . to keep the movie feeling authentic , Costner opted to build the motion-picture show ’s town from clams instead of using western towns already located in Canada , since they seemed too bastard .
Open Rangemight be Costner ’s last westerly film , but he afterward star alongside the late , great Bill Paxton in miniseriesHatfields & McCoysin 2012 , based on the notorious historical feud between the titular family unit . The miniseries also check a reunification betweenKevin Costnerand Kevin Reynolds , after the brace had a very public falling out makingWaterworld .
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