Kevin Costner rides again?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kevin Costner is in negotiation with the A&E Network to produce -- and possibly co-direct, and act in -- a two-part, four-hour miniseries described as "a post-Civil War story covering a major conflict in the settlement of the West." Tana Nugent Jamieson, A&E's executive vice-president of drama programming, thinks the network has the right man for the right job: "Costner understands the Western better than anybody, and he respects the genre. He knows every bit of detail about the West; this is a genre he feels a lot of passion for. It's a perfect fit."