Kevin Costner’s New American West Film Triggers Political Firestorm Over Alleged ‘Distorted History’
Fact-Check: A viral rumor claims Kevin Costner’s upcoming American West film, titled *Horizon: An American Saga*, is secretly a “woke rewrite” of history that paints cowboys as villains and erases pioneer suffering. This is false. The film, a multi-part epic directed and produced by Costner, is based on the real 1860s Western expansion, drawing from historical accounts of both Native American and white settler perspectives. Critics and historians have confirmed the film does not contain a political agenda, and the viral claims originate from a satirical blog misread as news.