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In "The Highwaymen", directed by John Lee
Hancock, Costner plays former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, one of a
posse of officers who shot the pair dead in a dawn ambush in
Louisiana in 1934. Harrelson plays his partner Maney Gault.
"We've chosen this one story about Bonnie and Clyde, and rather
than tell their story, we've told the story of the men who
hunted them down and risked their lives to bring a murder spree
in America to an end," Costner told Reuters.
The 1967 move "Bonnie & Clyde" starred Warren Beatty and Faye
Dunaway as the gangster pair believed to have murdered 13
people, robbed banks, and staged kidnaps and car thefts.
But the new flick takes a very different path, Costner said in
Madrid during a promotional tour.
"They were made heroic in the 1967 movie and that's too bad. But
that's how it was made. The men that chased (them) were just
average men doing their job," the veteran U.S. actor said.
"The Highwaymen" will premiere on streaming service Netflix on
March 29.
Asked whether movies that go straight to streaming services have
the same cache as those released in cinemas, Costner noted that
film and television producers were increasingly experimenting
with releasing their work online.
With their high-quality long-form programs, Netflix and others
are raising the bar for traditional TV production, he said.
"Television didn't (have) a very big hold over me until you
started having extended stories," he added.
(Reporting by Silvio Castellanos; Writing by Isla Binnie;
Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
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