A lifelong Western and Horror movie fan, with an intense interest in history and weapons, screenwriter John Fasano was actually focused on Bruce Willis, not Wyatt Earp, when Hollywood fate took a hand and he found himself suddenly working on what would become a Western classic, 1993’s Tombstone. “This whole thing started as a real ‘movie moment.’ I was writing Die Hard 3, and George Cosmatos was preparing Shadow Conspiracy, and we’re both at the Cinergi offices in Santa Monica. I’


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