History Trivia / Tombstone

* AllStarCast: Let's see...Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/SamElliott, Creator/PowersBoothe, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/DanaDelany, Creator/StephenLang, Creator/MichaelRooker, Creator/BillyBobThornton and many more. There's even one special appearance during Doc's introduction. The actor? You guessed it: Frank Stallone!

* AllStarCast: Let's see...Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/SamElliott, Creator/PowersBoothe, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/DanaDelany, Creator/StephenLang, Creator/MichaelRooker, Creator/BillyBobThornton and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many more.]] There's even one special appearance during Doc's introduction. The actor? You guessed it: Frank Stallone!

* TheCastShowoff: Creator/ValKilmer is skilled at fingerwalking (the art of rolling something over and through his fingers), which he famously does with a poker chip in his first scene.

** Michael Biehn gets to do some particularly spectacular GunTwirling in the bar scene opposite Kilmer.

** In an interview in the late 1990s, Creator/JohnCarpenter claimed he almost directed this film.
** Kevin Jarre's original script was significantly longer than the final film. It was intended to be an epic, detailing the lives of all the combatant parties in the story.

* DuelingMovies: Duelled with ''WyattEarp'' (1994) with Creator/KevinCostner. Where Costner's film was an epic (over 3 hours!) focused on Wyatt's life, ''Tombstone'' was an ensemble film centering mostly on the events in Tombstone and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the immediate aftermath]]. While neither film was a hit upon its release, ''Tombstone'' earned $56 million at the box office against a $25 million budget, meaning that it likely made a modest profit after all expenses. It has also been VindicatedByCable and become something of a classic western. ''Wyatt Earp'', on the other hand, was a big flop, earning only $26 million against a budget of $65 million and quickly getting forgotten.

** Longtime veteran western actor Creator/GlennFord had originally signed on as Marshall White; however, poor health forced him to withdraw. The role went to Harry Carey, Jr., who was originally cast as a wagonmaster.

* AllStarCast: Let's see...Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/SamElliott, Creator/PowersBoothe, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/DanaDelany, Creator/StephenLang, Creator/MichaelRooker, Creator/BillyBobThornton and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many more...]]

* AllStarCast: Let's see...Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/ValKilmer, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/SamElliott, Creator/PowersBoothe, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/DanaDelaney, Creator/StephenLang, Creator/MichaelRooker, Creator/BillyBobThornton and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many more...]]

* DuelingMovies: Duelled with ''WyattEarp'' (1994) with Creator/KevinCostner. Where Costner's film was an epic (over 3 hours!) focused on Wyatt's life, ''Tombstone'' was an ensemble film centering mostly on the events in Tombstone and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the immediate aftermath]]. ''Tombstone'' was also the clear victor at the box office, more than doubling its modest $25 million budget with a domestic take of $56m (the equivalent of just over $80 million today). ''Wyatt Earp'', on the other hand, had more than double the budget ($65m) of ''Tombstone'' but wound up with half the gross, with a meager $26m domestic total, one of a string of flops in the mid-90s for Kevin Costner.

** Creator/ThomasHadenChurch as Billy Clanton; he was 33 years old, playing a man who died at age 19.
** Then-72-year old Harry Carey Jr. plays Marshal Fred White, who only lived to be 31 years old.

** Creator/BillyBobThornton’s lines were ad-libbed, as he was only told to “be a bully”.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/StephenLang was drunk when most of his scenes were filmed.

* DawsonCasting: Creator/DanaDelany as Josephine Marcus. Delany was 36 when she played the role of a 20-year-old actress working the towns of the Wild West. Also, Creator/ThomasHadenChurch as Billy Clanton; he was 33 years old, playing a man who died at age 19.

* ThrowItIn: Creator/BillyBobThornton’s lines were ad-libbed, as he was only told to “be a bully”.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RichardGere was originally cast as Wyatt Earp with Creator/WillemDafoe as Doc Holiday. Buena Vista refused to distribute the film if he was cast, due to Dafoe's role in ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist''.
** Longtime veteran western actor Creator/GlennFord had originally signed on as Marshall White; however, poor health forced him to withdraw.

* WagTheDirector: In an interview with True West magazine in October 2006, Creator/KurtRussell admits that after original director Kevin Jarre was fired, he directed a majority of the picture. According to Russell, credited director George P. Cosmatos served merely to make things run smoothly. Creator/MichaelBiehn denies this, however. In 2017 Kilmer stated that at the very least Russell poured in a massive amount of behind-the-scenes effort to keep the film on track after Jarre was fired.

* WagTheDirector: In an interview with True West magazine in October 2006, Creator/KurtRussell admits that after original director Kevin Jarre was fired, he directed a majority of the picture. According to Russell, credited director George P. Cosmatos served merely to make things run smoothly. Creator/MichaelBiehn denies this, however.

* DawsonCasting: Dana Delany as Josephine Marcus. Delany was 36 when she played the role of a 20-year-old actress working the towns of the Wild West. Also, Creator/ThomasHadenChurch as Billy Clanton; he was 33 years old, playing a man who died at age 19.