Kurt Russell Talks About His Regret With "Tombstone"
Updated: Apr 2
What is your favorite Western film?
Kurt Russell is opening up with The Hollywood Reporter about his regrets with 1993's 'Tombstone', which infamously saw him take over directing with George P. Cosmatos (Cobra) from late screenwriter Kevin Jarre (The Devil's Own), who was fired a month into the shoot. But from all reports, the original screenplay was one of the best written.
Russell was asked why he had regret in the first place. "That’s because of the screenplay. The movie is not as good as the screenplay." Apparently, Russell was forced to cut 22 pages from the script due to budget cuts, which would have made it a masterpiece.
Russell further elaborated, “I’ll never make peace with that. It could have been way better. It’s considered one of the great Westerns, right? It could have been considered one of the great movies. It had a great cast, but it had fabulous writing. And for a lot of different reasons, the money got burned through, and the director thing didn’t work out. So we had to go about it differently, and we got what we made. The impact of Tombstone is very strong, and that’s nice. That’s great. But could it have been a lot better? Yes.”
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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