Kevin Costner is going to make his own big-ass adventure franchise from scratch
Never one to be accused of lacking ambition, Kevin Costner has added to a recent résumé of big things—including the Hatfields And McCoys miniseries, anchoring the next generation of Tom Clancy adaptations, and saving the oceans—the goal of engineering his very own multimedia franchise, The Explorers Guild, which could sprawl across books, movies, and both live-action and animated TV series, provided Costner can find someone to fund all those things. (Presumably he'll take care of the concept album himself.) The books, at least, are a done deal: He's partnered with writer Jon Baird to release The Explorers Guild, Volume One: A Passage To Shambhala in 2014, introducing the world to its group of adventurers delving into historical myth and mystery, beginning with a quest to find a legendary Buddhist city while World War I rages on and is not that important, apparently.