According to Variety, Kevin Costner will produce, finance and lend his voice to The Explorers Club, an new animated series that will originate on the Internet during the holiday season in 12 four-minute segments. Costner intends to build a following and then turn The Explorers Club into a live-action feature. The animated series is a collection of gothic stories that follow a group of Victorian-era adventurers as they travel to the darkest corners of the map. “Each episode is clever and visual, it works as a series, and it has massive potential for the bigscreen,” Costner explained. “As a filmmaker, I was excited by the opportunities to draw an audience into a story in a new way.”