Tombstone extended cut lost scenes Michael Biehn: 5 Shocking Details Finally Revealed [Confirmed]

Michael Biehn, who played the villain Johnny Ringo, spoke openly about the film’s chaotic production history while promoting his new project “Onslaught”. He is constantly asked about the missing footage. He explained that the script actually contained much more, but it never got any further than that. Kevin Jarre’s original script was massive.

It was 142 pages long. It was supposed to become a film with a runtime of about two and a half hours. Kevin did all the preparatory work, but was then fired just four weeks after filming began. That was a really difficult start for the entire production team.

Biehn thinks he knows why Jarre was fired. He said: “It was a great, great screenplay. It was 142 pages long, so the movie should have been two and a half hours long. Kevin, who wrote it, handled all the pre-production. They shot for four weeks with Kevin, and then they fired him.”

According to Biehn, the problem was that Jarre simply didn’t want to work with anyone else. Even though he had big stars like Kurt Russell and an Oscar-winning cinematographer named William Fraker on set, he wouldn’t listen to their advice. Biehn said: “I know why: He wanted everything done his way and wasn’t very cooperative. He had a lot of great actors around him, and he just wouldn’t listen to anyone.”

After Jarre left, things had to change quickly. Kurt Russell and a small team spent an entire weekend reworking the script so they could continue filming. They had to cut 40 pages from the story. Everyone lost scenes, but the “cowboys” in the film lost the most. Biehn mentioned that in the original script, the cowboys had an entire life outside of Tombstone. However, those scenes were never filmed.

Biehn wanted to make his position on this very clear. He said, “People always say, ‘Man, I’d love to see all the stuff that was cut out. I’d love to see it back in the movie and experience the movie that way.’ Well, it was never filmed. There’s just nothing there. There’s nothing that could be re-edited. Everything that was usable is on the screen.”

So there you have it. Don’t search the internet for a secret extended version. It simply doesn’t exist. Tombstone is already a perfect movie just the way it is. You can stream it right away if you want to watch it for the hundredth time. And keep an eye out for Onslaught when it hits theaters on September 4.