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 1993 marked the release of two films about Wyatt Earp
and the events surrounding the gunfight at the OK Corral. One was Wyatt Earp
which starred Kevin Costner as the legendary lawman and the other was Tombstone
which starred Kurt Russell. Tombstone has always been considered the better film
and co-star Val Kilmer recently made it clear that it was so because of Russell.
The film was going to have been directed by screenwriter Kevin Jarre but a month
into production it was clear he couldn’t do the job. He was replaced by George
P. Cosmatos who ended up finishing the film but Kilmer says Russell salvaged
what Jarre had done because Cosmatos had only to days to prep and the studio
wasn’t going to stand for any delays to the film. Russell came up with the next
day’s shot list. He and Kilmer also edited the film once it was done. Kilmer
says that Russell, Powers Boothe and Bill Paxton would ask for another take on a
long say to get it right even at the expense of their own screen time. |
