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Tombstone (1993) - George P. Cosmatos claimed that Stephen Lang was drunk for most of filming.
Stephen Lang was intoxicated during the filming of Tombstone. This was because his character, Ike Clanton, was drunk for most of the film, and Lang wanted to embody the character to the tee. Director George P. Cosmatos, confirmed this when he said that Lang would drink between takes to make Ike Clanton come to life when the cameras rolled.
Wyatt Earp : [to Ringo] He's drunk. Doc Holliday : In vino veritas. ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"] Johnny Ringo : Age quod agis.
- The Lawmen, Outlaws and Events Depicted in The Film Were Real
- Val Kilmer Went Method For His Role as Doc Holliday
- All of The Moustaches in The Movie Are Absolutely Genuine – Except One
- Billy Bob Thornton Improvised Every Single One of His Lines
- Val Kilmer Really Can Roll A Coin Across His Knuckles
- Ike Clanton Actor Stephen Lang Is Genuinely Drunk in All of His Scenes
- Val Kilmer Was Not The First Actor to Play Both Doc Holliday and Batman
- The Witty Tombstone Is Real
- George p Cosmatos Was Good Friends with Dollars Trilogy Director Sergio Leone
- A Genuine Cousin of Wyatt Earp’s (Himself Named Wyatt Earp) Appears in The Film
Tombstone is based on historical events that took place in Tombstone, Arizona during the 1880s. This includes the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and a group of outlaws. But this is not one of those films that rehashes history to be more explosive on the silver screen. In fact, the film is painst...
After reaching stardom with Top Gun, Val Kilmer was still establishing himself as an actor to be taken seriously. So when he was offered the role of Doc Holliday, the actor jumped at the chance to prove his mettle and endeavoured to make his performance as gambler-gunfighter-dentist Doc Holliday as realistic as possible. For one, Kilmer exhaustivel...
Tombstone actors Kurt Russell and (in particular) Sam Elliott have often boasted impressive facial hair throughout their careers, but the same wasn’t true for all their co-stars. However, to enhance period accuracy, all the Tombstone actors stepped up and grew real moustaches for the film – although according to Johnny Ringo actor Michael Biehn, at...
Billy Bob Thornton makes an early appearance as Johnny Tyler in Tombstone, but originally his character wasn’t originally given any dialogue. However, Thornton was instructed by the film’s ghost-director, George P Cosmatos, simply to “be a bully” when facing Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp. Subsequently, every word Thornton utters during his confrontatio...
Seeing Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday rolling a coin across his knuckles is even more impressive when you consider that the actor was doing it for real, without any camera trickery to assist him. Whether or not the real Doc Holliday could perform this parlour trick is up for debate, but in the film it has clear function: to tell the audience that this i...
Stephen Lang (now best known for Avatar) appears in Tombstone as Ike Clanton, the drunk outlaw who does little but gibber in the face of Wyatt Earp. And, while Lang might be a respected actor, much of the drunkenness we see is genuine. The actor told Slash Film in 2018,“During my time in Arizona, I don’t know if I’d ever had a drink of water, but I...
After Val Kilmer’s winning performance in Tombstone, the offers came rolling in. Not least among these was the title role in Batman Forever. After Michael Keatondeclined to reprise his role, and Tim Burton left the film after a McDonald’s tie-in fell through (yes, really), Kilmer was chosen to play the new Batman/Bruce Wayne. However, as improbable...
The town of Tombstone has certainly leaned into its unconventional name – for starters, its local newspaper is known as the Tombstone Epitaph. But did you know that the literal tombstone epitaph seen in the film comes from a real grave? Early in the movie, setting the tone for the film’s dark humour, we see a headstone inscribed with the epitaph “H...
In the DVD audio commentary for Tombstone, director George P. Cosmatos remarks that back in his native Italy he was a friend of Sergio Leone, the esteemed filmmaker responsible for several of the most acclaimed westerns ever made. Leone is best known for his Dollars trilogy, the series thatlaunched Clint Eastwood’s career, as well as Once Upon a Ti...
Believe it or not, an actual Wyatt Earp appears in Tombstone. Actor Wyatt Earp is a fifth cousin of the historic lawman, and, has a minor role as the outlaw Billy Claiborne. The real-life Claiborne was indeed present at the Gunfight at the OK Corral, but was unarmed and fled. He became a drunk, and was later killed by a bartender with whom he came ...
May 1, 2018 · 10. Stephen Lang went method with his portrayal of the drunk Ike Clanton. He was said by Cosmatos to be pissed through the entire shoot. 11. During Doc’s death scene, Kilmer requested he lay atop ice so he could shake and convulse as seen on film. 12. Billy Bob Thornton was told to “be a bully” in his scene with Russell.
Apr 6, 2024 · Harry Carey Jr. gets blown away by drunk Boothe. Dana Delany shows up to romance Russell and brings Billy Zane in tow. Charlton Heston even shows up late for a glorified cameo.
Apr 21, 2020 · He quickly uproots a drunken bully from the faro table at the Oriental Saloon, negotiating a 25 percent share of the house profits to run the gambling there. And with that, the Earp brothers — Virgil (Sam Elliott) and Morgan (Bill Paxton) — are on their way to becoming business tycoons in the booming silver town.
