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- Val Kilmer Says Kurt Russell Is Responsible For Tombstone's Success. It has long been reported that Kurt Russell is not merely the star of Tombstone but also its secret director.
- Willem Dafoe Was Initially Sought To Play Doc Holliday. It's hard to imagine anyone other than Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. He gives arguably the performance of his career in the Western; there are still folks claiming he was robbed of his Oscar.
- Kurt Russell Cut Some Of His Own Scenes To Earn The Trust Of His Fellow Actors. During the early days of shooting Tombstone, screenwriter Kevin Jarre (Glory) was also on-board as the director.
- Billy Bob Thornton Completely Ad-Libbed His Scene. While Kevin Jarre was very particular about his screenplay, as we noted, Kurt Russell and the remaining team involved with Tombstone made some big changes throughout the rest of production.
4 days ago · But according to Val Kilmer, one man did appreciate Jarre's original work: Kurt Russell. In fact, Kilmer would go on to credit Russell with shaping Tombstone 's story into its final form, and even ...
Aug 29, 2024 · Tombstone is a loose retelling of the historical gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the ensuing Earp Vendetta Ride. But at its heart, Tombstone is a story about the friendship between Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) and Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell). That iconic friendship may never have come to life if it hadn't been for the cast and crew rallying together ...
Jan 21, 2022 · Kevin Jarre The Man who Created Tombstone. By Henry C. Parke. Born in Detroit in 1954, Kevin Jarre had a tumultuous youth, which predestined him for a cinematic career. The son of gorgeous 1960s starlet Laura Devon, he lived first in Wyoming with his “Hemingwayesque” biological father, Cleland Boyd Clark, a rancher and fashion photographer.
In the 1960s, Jarre had small acting parts in the TV series Flipper.In England, while his father was scoring the film Ryan's Daughter, Kevin became a friend of writer/director David Lean, who encouraged him to take up screenwriting and directing, giving him the books James Boswell's Life of Johnson and Alan Moorehead's The Blue Nile and The White Nile.
Dec 25, 2023 · Kevin Jarre in 2011. Kurt Russell is the last one standing who had a definitive say in and exact knowledge of how Tombstone became the movie we know, and he ain’t talking. While he acknowledges the critical part he played in keeping the train running, he's happy to keep the full extent of that role close to the chest.
I met Kevin Jarre three years before we did Tombstone. We spent a great deal of time doing what we call the “house of men” ride. Four or five of us, at least one night a week, would each take our horses, a couple of six shooters, about 100 rounds of ammunition a piece, a pocket full of cigars and a bottle of “Who hit John.”
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