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The film’s production, taking place in the Arizona heat, quickly turned into chaos. Cinematographer William Fraker claims he was being ingnored and quit three times. The cast and crew were losing faith, and producers were unhappy. Four weeks into production, Jarre was fired as the “Tombstone” director. George Cosmatos (“Rambo: First Blood, Part II”) was brought in as a replacement. At that point, the trio of Russell, Kilmer, and Cosmatos formulated a plan to save the film.
Russell, already serving as a principal actor, also assumed the unofficial role as cast spokesman and was tabbed with re-focusing the script. “Wyatt [Earp] and Doc [Holliday] is one of the great love affairs of all time between two men,” Russell said. “It’s a strange, tough, violent, deep relationship.” Their relationship became the focus of the tightened script.
Val Kilmer believed that Russell should have received a producer’s credit on the film for all the hats he wore beyond Earp’s iconic gambler-style cowboy hat. He said:
“He’s very good about structure and a character’s function. He’ll discuss and anticipate things. We had so many powerful actors, it could easily have become a feeding frenzy of sharks going for their own.”
While “Tombstone” was clearly a group effort, Kilmer believes that without Russell there would be no movie.
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