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Tombstone Movie Facts: -Here is the translation of what Doc and Johnny Ringo are saying to one another in Latin: Doc Holliday: In wine there is truth. Johnny Ringo: Do what you do. Doc Holliday: Let Apella the Jew believe, not I. Johnny Ringo: Youth is the teacher of fools. Doc Holliday: Rest in peace. -Val Kilmer wrote in 2017 that Kurt Russell was a major influence in the directing of this film and that he was "solely responsible for Tombstone's success, no question." A month into production, Kevin Jarre was replaced as director after he became overwhelmed in the duty and fell behind schedule. George P. Cosmatos was brought in and hit the ground running. According to Kilmer, "I was there every minute and although Kurt's version differs slightly from mine, the one thing he's totally correct about is how hard he worked the day before, for the next day's shot list, and tremendous effort he and I both put into editing, as the studio wouldn't give us any extra time to make up for the whole month we lost with the first director. I watched Kurt sacrifice his own role and energy to devote himself as a storyteller, even going so far as to draw up shot lists to help our replacement director, George Cosmatos, who came in with only two days prep." Russell admitted as much in a 2006 interview with True West magazine, when the actor said he made it clear to studio brass he did not want his name listed as director, but that he did help out behind the scenes quite a bit. -Robert Mitchum was signed on to star as Old Man Clanton. Prior to principal photography, he fell from his horse and injured his back, forcing him to quit the part. Instead, Mitchum provides the narration at the beginning and end of the film. -In 2020, Val Kilmer put an end to the longstanding huckleberry/hucklebearer debate. He claims the line really was written as "I'm your huckleberry" in the script, meaning, 'I'm your man. You've met your match.' Kilmer set the record straight in his autobiography, titled, aptly enough, I'm Your Huckleberry. -Willem Dafoe was the original choice to play Doc Holliday, but Buena Vista refused to distribute the film if he was cast, due to Dafoe's role in the controversial The Last Temptation of Christ. -During the famous gunfight, members of the two opposing parties were initially only about 6 feet (1.8 m) apart, and about 30 shots were fired in 30 seconds. -Many scenes and subplots, cut from the film, still did not make the expanded DVD version: one sequence was the cowboys' bonfire rally and mourning scene, which takes place the night they buried the O.K. Corral dead. A brief shot can be seen in some of the trailers (Curly Bill throwing a bottle of whiskey into the bonfire). -Kevin Jarre was very particular about period-accurate facial hair. He required the cast to grow their own mustaches. -The one exception was Jon Tenney who played Johnny Behan. He had just come off another role and didn’t have time to grow one, so he wore a fake mustache.b6df54