Stephen Lang on Tombstone’s Troubled Production: Kurt Russell ‘Refused to Let It Die’

Stephen Lang on Tombstone’s Troubled Production: Kurt Russell ‘Refused to Let It Die’

Of all the so-called “Neo-Westerns” produced in the modern era—which is to say Oaters made after the ’70s—few have enjoyed as much longevity as Tombstone. Released sheepishly in 1993 by a studio so preemptively embarrassed about behind-the-scenes troubles that Disney elected to not screen it for critics, Tombstone was expected to come and go. Instead it never left.  Bill Clinton famously screened Tombstone multiple times in the White House’s Eas…