Line #7 Trivia/Tombstone


1	* 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!
2	* CastTheRunnerUp:
3	** Creator/KurtRussell was briefly considered for Doc Holliday opposite Creator/RichardGere as Wyatt Earp.
4	** 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.
5	** Creator/RobertMitchum was originally cast as Old Man Clanton, but the part was dropped from the script after he was injured falling off his horse. He did narrate the film.
6	* TheCastShowoff:
7	** 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.
8	** Creator/MichaelBiehn gets to do some particularly spectacular GunTwirling in the bar scene opposite Kilmer.
9	* DawsonCasting:
10	** 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.
11	** Virgil Earp was 38 at the time of the events. Creator/SamElliott was 49.
12	** Billy Clanton was only around 18 or 19 when he was killed at the O.K. Corral. Creator/ThomasHadenChurch was 32 at the time of the film's release.
13	* DeletedScene: Many scenes/subplots cut from the film still did not make the expanded DVD version: one sequence was the Cowboys' bonfire rally/mourning scene, which takes place the night they buried the OK Corral dead.
14	* DuelingMovies: Duelled with ''Film/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.
15	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ValKilmer got the emaciated and sickly look of Doc Holliday by eating almost nothing but onions and tomatoes for weeks before filming started.
16	* EnforcedMethodActing: According to Creator/GeorgeCosmatos on the DVD commentary, Creator/StephenLang was drunk when most of his scenes were filmed.
17	* FakeNationality: Polish actress Creator/JoannaPacula plays the Hungarian-born "Big Nose" Kate Horony.
18	* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Creator/BillyBobThornton's lines were ad-libbed, as he was told only to "be a bully".
19	* MissingTrailerScene: A love scene between Wyatt and Josephine was cut, because George P. Cosmatos did not want to consume the love story so fast. Part of the scene can be seen in the movie trailer. The scene was after they fortuitously ran into each other riding horses.
20	* RealLifeRelative: Wyatt Earp's fifth cousin, Wyatt Earp, plays Billy Claiborne.
21	* ThrowItIn:
22	** It was Creator/ValKilmer’s idea to whistle on the way to the O.K. Corral.
23	** Doc Holiday's wink to Billy Clanton just before the culmination of the O.K. Corral gun fight was completely improvised by Kilmer
24	** According to the director, all of Creator/BillyBobThornton's lines were ad-libbed, as he was told to just sound like a bully.
25	* TroubledProduction: From the start, Creator/KevinCostner was placing pressure on studios not to finance the picture (''Tombstone'' and ''Film/WyattEarp'' were two halves of the same project that more or less split off due to CreativeDifferences between Costner and writer Kevin Jarre), with Buena Vista (Disney) stepping up at the last minute. Disney refused to have anything to do with the original choice for Holliday, Willem Dafoe, due to the controversy still surrounding ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist''. Jarre was originally set to direct, but was fired due to his refusal to cut the screenplay (both Creator/KurtRussell and Val Kilmer have stated the original shooting script was about 30 pages too long). Disney hired George P. Cosmatos to finish the film; Creator/KurtRussell (who had significant pull behind the scenes with both cast and crew) has in recent years made the claim that he directed the picture with Cosmatos as a front (he was the same guy who did ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'', so he was at the very least agreeable to actor input), although Creator/MichaelBiehn has denied Russell's claims, and at least some of Jarre's directorial work is still in the film. As a cherry on top of all of this, the actor playing Old Man Clanton, Creator/RobertMitchum, was injured in a horse-riding accident, which led to the part being cut entirely (although Mitchum was able to do the beginning and ending narrations) and much of his dialogue given to Curly Bill.
26	* 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, even going so far as to reduce his on-screen presence in order to focus on behind-the-scenes issues.
27	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
28	** 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''.
29	** Creator/MickeyRourke turned down the role of Johnny Ringo.
30	** Music/JerryGoldsmith was originally attached to score this film but unfortunately had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts.
31	** 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.
32	** It's said that Creator/JohnCarpenter was in the running to direct it, but he [[WordOfGod has confirmed this was just a rumor]].

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