Costner Keeps It Real About New Film

Kevin Costner, producer and star of the upcoming film, Swing Vote, harbors no illusions about its box office performance, the Boston Herald reports.

"The Mummy is gonna roll over on us," Costner said about the film. "But I'm OK with what Swing Vote is, and I'm confident people will be enjoying this five years from now."

Costner, who plays alcoholic, single father Bud Johnson in the film, invested $20 million of his own money to finance it.

The story revolves around Costner's character and how his one vote will decide a presidential election. Both the incumbent President, played by Kelsey Grammer, and the challenger, played by Dennis Hopper, fly to Johnson's home in New Mexico to try to sway his support.

"It was a movie no one was going to make, and when I tried to figure out how to make it, all the conventional methods just bugged me. I said to my wife, 'We're going to finance it,' and away we went."

He invested "everything we had," Costner said.

"But every time I backed my own movies I've done really well," most notably with his Oscar-winning western, Dances with Wolves.

Costner is most notable for films Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and No Way Out.