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The Surprising ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ and Kevin Costner’s Big Bet on ‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1’

June 28, 2024/ 69 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Chris Ryan

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins review the prequel 'A Quiet Place: Day One,' then Chris Ryan joins to take apart Kevin Costner's self-funded Western 'Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1.'

2 films across 2 segments.

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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’the prequel, with Amanda Dobbins

A Quiet Place: Day One poster

A Quiet Place: Day One 2024

Michael Sarnoski (of 'Pig') directs the third film in the franchise, from a story he co-wrote with John Krasinski. Lupita Nyong'o plays a terminally ill hospice patient caught in Manhattan on the day the sound-hunting creatures arrive; Joseph Quinn is the stranger she forges a bond with, plus a cat. Sean calls it a surprise and one of the year's best: a contained, melancholy survival story about dying that he found excruciatingly effective for its first 45 minutes, dinged only by a sentimental late song choice. Her goal is a slice of pizza from Patsy's in Harlem. Djimon Hounsou returns from Part II as the connective tissue to the island.

‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1’Kevin Costner's gamble, with Chris Ryan

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 poster

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 2024

Kevin Costner directs, stars, and sank $38 million of his own money into the first of a planned four-part Western, shot on digital in Utah. Three hours, roughly five storylines (Sienna Miller, Costner, Luke Wilson, plus scalp-hunters and a Chinese-immigrant thread), and Costner doesn't appear until the one-hour mark; Luke Wilson arrives at two. The trio agree it plays like Taylor Sheridan TV (a prologue that ends with a trailer for Chapter 2 rather than an ending) and that it's a curious artifact more than a disaster. Nobody's seen it before, but it's not bad; it's just not really a movie yet. Giovanni Ribisi turns up as the possible landowner.

Also mentioned raised along the way

In the 'A Quiet Place' talk A Quiet PlaceA Quiet Place Part IIAliensPig12 Years a SlaveBlack PantherUsGladiator IIThe Fantastic Four: First Steps

In the 'Horizon' talk Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2How the West Was WonMichael ClaytonDuneMegalopolisOnce Upon a Time in HollywoodOpen RangeMeek's CutoffThe Lost City of ZThe Godfather Part IIThe BikeridersHereAlien: RomulusBlack Bag

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