10 Things You Never Knew About TOMBSTONE

it's one of the most beloved westerns of the modern era if you're watching this you can undoubtedly quote most if not all of the lines delivered with scene stealing flair by val kilmer isn't that a daisy and what's become the definitive portrayal of gambling gunslinger doc holliday you may know every scene in this movie like the back of your hand but in this video we've collected 10 things you never knew about tombstone if you like it please let us know share it with your friends and subscribe to movie web for more conversations about all of the things we love tombstone boasts one of the most formidable macho ensembles imaginable kurt russell sam elliott bill paxton powers booth michael beam as well as smaller roles from michael rooker thomas hayden church stephen lang billy zane jason priestley billy bob thornton and terry o'quinn so let's get into it shall we number one the movie is missing a few herbs the heroic ensemble at the center of tombstone includes wyatt herb played by kurt russell and his brothers virgil played with typical awesome gruffness by sam elliott and morgan played by the late bill paxton and all of his boyish but badass glory but there were actually nine siblings in total sisters martha virginia and adelia half brother newton eldest brother james and youngest brother warren erp james a professional gambler saloon keeper and union veteran was actually in tombstone during the shootout at the o.k corral but he was believed to be sitting at home eating lunch warren wasn't in town for the gun fight but was deputized by wyatt joining him doc holliday turkey creek jack johnson and sherman mcmaster on the erp vendetta ride after morgan's murder number two kurt russell was tombstone's real director the late kevin jarry had written the oscar-winning civil war drama glory and was set to make his directorial debut on tombstone from his own script but his inexperience and religious adherence to what was probably an overly long shooting script caused him to fall behind early on after wrapping only the film's charlton heston's scenes on the advice of sylvester stallone who apparently worked on rambo first blood part 2 the same way russell hired director george cosmados to be his onset yes man while more or less secretly directing tombstone himself you called down the thunder well now you've got it russell sacrificed hours of sleep and several pages of his own character's dialogue to make it all work promising cosmodo's he wouldn't reveal their secret so long as the director was alive though he did speak with entertainment weekly about the situation a bit in 1993 but it wasn't until 2013 almost 10 years after cosmados passed away that russell finally revealed all in a candid in-depth and fascinating interview with the esteemed and historically focused true west magazine kilmer more or less backed up his co-stars version of events in a 2017 post writing in part i'll be clear kurt is solely responsible for tombstone success no question number three wyatt earp really waded into a creek and shot curly bell it's one of the movie's most cinematic moments a super powered and supernatural feeling showdown where wyatt earp charges directly into curly bill's line of fire somehow all of the shots fired by bill miss the famous lawman just before he empties his double-barreled shotgun into the dumbfounded leader of the cowboys do you ever see anything like that before well i ain't never even heard of anything like that one of the cowboys johnny barnes survived the gunfight in real life dying from his injuries a short while later in a nearby farmhouse before he passed he related the story of wyatt earp's near miraculous feat portrayed in the film exactly as he described number four willem dafoe nearly played doc holliday i'm your huckabee it's crazy to imagine anyone other than val kilmer as doc holliday but willem dafoe was reportedly the first choice for the role it's even crazier to imagine that the lead role in a martin scorsese film would sour a studio on an actor but apparently the decision makers balked at hiring defoe because of the controversy surrounding the last temptation of christ some five years earlier if the same reports are to be believed mickey rourke turned down the role of johnny ringo i didn't think you had it in you rourke did later star in danny trejo's direct-to-dvd horror western dead in tombstone as lucifer number five doc holliday really said you're a daisy if you do in fact all of the lines spoken by the actors during the pivotal scene at the ok corral are said to be historically accurate based on different historical sources like newspaper reports from tombstone that chronicled the famous shootout but did doc ever say i'm your huckleberry for that matter did val kilmer even say it this is a hotly debated topic online according to true west the phrase i'm your huckleberry is attributed to doc in the 1928 book tombstone by walter noble burns which was based in part on interviews with old timers from the area true west and other sources also contend i'm your huckleberry is an old southern phrase meaning basically if you want to fight i'm your man or even more patronizingly if you want to dance i'll dance with you doc holliday was born in georgia and kilmer certainly gave him a southern aristocrats charms isn't that a daisy then there are those who say the line is actually i'm your hucklebearer arguing that a huckle was a word for the handles on a casket making a hucklebearer a pallbearer that would make the line i'm your hucklebearer pretty sinister but we've gone to the source material we took a look at the screenplay a fourth draft dated march 15th 1993 to be exact and it most certainly says huckleberry number six doc holliday's finger walking trick is a val kilmer staple the way val kilmer's doc holliday rolls a coin across his knuckles isn't just super cool it's something of a signature move for the actor going all the way back to the 80s eagle-eyed viewers will be rewarded with the discovery of similar finger-walking maneuvers throughout kelmer's pre-tombstone filmography in real genius it's a pair of quarters in top gun a pen number seven there's a cool connection between doc holliday and batman val kilmer was born on december 31 1959 that same year the late adam west played gunslinger doc holliday and not one not two but three different episodes of three different tv westerns cult 45 sugarfoot and lawman john henry holliday beginning in 1966 west starred in the role that would come to define him as gotham city's caped crusader 30 years later val kilmer put on the cape and cow for batman forever how did kilmer come to accept the mantle of the bat after batman and batman returns star michael keaton abdicated from the role batman forever director joel schumacher was impressed by kilmer's performance in tombstone as doc holliday number eight and a sad connection between doc holliday and frederick chopin doc holliday says so many cool things in tombstone that even his more subtle witticisms made their way onto t-shirts patches and memes the profanity laced line about frederick chopin which doc says to billy clanton thomas hayden church is loaded with a richer if profoundly sad deeper meaning you know frederick chopin you see both doc and the composer whose music doc plays are believed to have died from the same cause tuberculosis this famous quote from chopin is definitely something that's easy to imagine being uttered by kilmer and tombstone i wish i could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness but i take a kind of pleasure in indulging them frederic chopin died in 1849 two years before doc holliday was born number nine tombstone contains multiple nods to hollywood westerns the filmmakers behind tombstone paid attention to historical accuracy and even put wyatt earp's real-life fifth cousin in the movie in the role of billy claiborne the nods to hollywood westerns were sewn into the tombstone fabric with equal reverence for starters there's the film's narrator screen legend robert mitchum the tombstone cast also includes veteran western actors harry carey jr buck taylor from tv's gunsmoke and of course charlton heston they want him they got to come over us first incidentally paula malcolmson and the late powers booth would both go on to star in hbo's critically acclaimed western series deadwood number 10 this super cool tombstone is real basically there's a headstone visible in an early scene with an epitaph so cool it seems ripped straight from a plastic grave marker found in halloween novelty shops here lies lester moore four slugs from a 44 no less no more but this isn't just movie magic it's a real artifact from the old west there's actually a headstone in a tombstone arizona cemetery that actually says that however that's not the one we actually see in the film producers filmed some of the movie on location at knott's berry farm theme park in southern california where among other attractions a replica of the headstone in question sits in the park's wild west area you know somewhere there's a bunch of footage in kurt russell's possession just waiting for an ultimate addition but until then we'll just have to keep quoting the version of tombstone that we already have and we already so dearly love you tell them i'm coming and hell's coming with me you here so did you like this video about 10 things you never knew about tombstone we hope you learned something we hope you learned 10 things or at least a few and what did we miss are there cool tombstone facts that should have been in here let us know in the comments please like and share this video and please subscribe to movie web to stay up to date on all of the conversations about all of the things we love

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Length: 9min 51sec (591 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 23 2017

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[u/dw_calif]

Gatta find my DVD. One cool azz western.