Open Range

Uh, hi, guys.

Um, Open Range, the movie with Kevin Costner.

Open Range.

Hello, Dennis.

The bonus cryptic, Heading West-

which was itself part of a longer cycle of mid-2000s Westerns.

It started with Deadwood and Open Range and then came to include other titles that Julio discusses.

with you in the interview, like the assassination of Jesse James.

So the 09 Angel and the Bad Man is indeed an artifact of that time, especially visually.

Or a pizza head.

I think you made the right choice.

Quartz hat has this open range look to it.

It's sort of called Costner's hat in that, which is a great, great hat.

This brings us to 2003 and the slow, grueling climb back up the mountain.

He returns to the director's chair with a film called Open Range.

Yes.

And this is a masterclass in career rehabilitation.

The numbers tell the entire story here.

Open Range grossed a very respectable $68.3 million worldwide.

Not a blockbuster, but a solid hit.

Right.

The text is the blueprint, but the actors actually construct the house.

And speaking of building something monumental out of a book, that brings us to Kevin Costner's 2003 film Open Range.

Another fantastic example.

Costner directs and stars in this one alongside Robert Duvall, and Diego Luna is in it too playing Button.

And Costner and Duvall play Charlie and Boss, these two free-grazing cowboys who run afoul of a tyrannical local rancher.

Now, this is based on a novel by Lauran Paine called The Open Range Men.

Now, unlike the sparse Elmore Leonard short story, Paine's novel is widely considered to be very well-written.

Right.

Were you in Korea then? What are you going to tell us about your serving abroad? What are you talking about? I don't know.

There were movies like Open Range in the theater, opened at number two, and Uptown Girls with Brittany Murphy, RIP, opened at number three that weekend.

Other movies in the theater at the time, SWAT, Freaky Friday, the remake.

Oh, I

And one for you, especially Kevin Costner.

Why did he turn it down? To do open range.

Oh, good decision, Kevin.

Yeah,

good decision.

Because

otherwise I wouldn't have got that film and it's unforgiving and open range.

Yeah.

That's why laziness occurs or being impatient occurs.

Or, you know what I'm trying to say to you? What if y'all require something that does not match your timing? Y'all remember that movie, Open Range, when they got ready to go out there and fight with boss, and the boss had drugged them dudes with the smelly stuff.

And they go to get him to go fight.

He said, we ain't ourselves yet.

It'll be 24 hours a day.

And then we built this thing called Open Range.

And Open Range is going to be live 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

So it includes some other shows.

We've got some cool stuff that we've been doing.