HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA (trailer)

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I’m always up for Costner in “Western epic” mode, especially when he clearly has his heart and soul (and checkbook) in this project.

Quoth World of Reel:

Last week, I had reported that Costner would soon return to St. George, Utah to continue filming the third and fourth installments. It seems to be a done deal. Where is he getting all of this money? In addition to mortgaging 10 acres of a $50 million, oceanfront Santa Barbara property to ensure proper funding for the project, Costner also dished out $24 million of his own money to co-fund these epics.

a few notes at +/- 50% of ALAN WAKE 2

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  • A stunningly-realized horror world; the forests, especially, are terrifying – and beautiful.

  • Saga is such a great character and such a fantastic addition to the series that it makes Wake seem like even more of a raging asshole and his portions of the game a bit more of a chore. Yeah yeah, your story rewrites reality, blah blah blah. Fucking writers.

  • I'm really going to miss James McCaffery’s voice in Remedy games.

  • I was skeptical about the shared Remedy-verse, but I love how it works here. I have the Ultimate Edition of CONTROL that I want to replay soon so I'll pick up on more connections.

  • Think I'm finally understanding how Wake's Plot Board works - though I find it far less intuitive than Saga's profiling: "I have to be in the place to write..." Fucking writers.

  • That musical sequence really was something – and maddening. I love my flare gun but I hate reloading it. Or reloading anything, really... 🎶 "It couldn't be clearer... / ... something something, light / true and right..."🎶

  • Mem: you can reload while running but not while dodging.

  • Coffee World!

  • I miss Barry.

  • Have to play at night because of the location of the TV. Can't see a thing during the day. Appropriate, I suppose.

  • Fucking writers.