Tombstone on the Cutting Room Floor

Historians, actors and film critics weigh in on Kevin Jarre’s original script—and whether it should be remade and finally get its due.

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Everyone seems to agree that Kevin Jarre’s original script for Tombstone was brilliant. So why hasn’t someone dusted off the source material and re-filmed it the way Kevin wrote it? Is it because it’s too long for a movie, as some suggest, or is there a deeper truth about the whole shebang? We asked the participants in the 1993 film to weigh in, along with some of the best historians in the Earp field. Read on, this is very insightful stuff. —Bob Boze Bell

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