Where is open range filmed at

One of the highlights of Costner's career was starring and directing Dances With Wolves , where he plays an army officer who joins an Indian tribe. The movie was pegged in the press as a vanity project that was destined to fail prior to release, but it was both a huge critical and commercial success.

Kevin Costner's next western outing wasn't so warmly received, however. He played the title role in biopic Wyatt Earp , covering the legendary lawman's entire life. Despite a great cast, the film was an overlong, self-serious slog. It also came out after 's Tombstone , another Earp western starring Kurt Russell. When the film was being set up with Russell elsewhere, Costner reportedly used his then considerable clout to block financing avenues for it.

Kevin Costner's last directorial effort to date is 's Open Range , where he stars alongside Robert Duvall The Godfather as cattlemen who seek revenge on a land baron and a corrupt sheriff after they attack their crew. The movie was solid hit during release but despite rarely getting mentioned nowadays, it's the kind of old-fashioned, handsomely mounted western that rarely gets made anymore.

Its popularity swayed from time to time, but up until the s, it was the foundation of Hollywood and created stars like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. By this time, however, audiences had all but abandoned the genre. It was also fairly popular with critics, who praised it for the chemistry between Costner and Duvall, its scenery, and how it captured the classical feel of older westerns via Rotten Tomatoes. The film takes place primarily in a small Montana town and has some beautiful scenery.

But was the movie actually filmed there? It turns out that Costner, who also directed the film, had to use some Hollywood trickery in this department. This includes places likes Alberta, Morley, and Longview.