Ready to return to “Tombstone?”
The George P. Cosmatos-directed western, which was released theatrically back in 1993, is arriving on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc on April 22, alongside a 4K digital release available on the same day wherever you buy your movies (Amazon Prime Video, Fandango at Home and Apple TV to name a few). The film has been “meticulously remastered and restored,” according to the official press release, “with stunning visuals and immersive sound.”
Kurt Russell plays U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp, a gruff lawman who recruits his brothers Virgil and Morgan (Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton), along with gunslinger Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) for the notorious gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. Powers Boothe plays Curly Bill Brocius, one of the Cowboys in a loose confederation of cattle rustlers, that go up against the Earps and Holliday. Dana Delany, Jason Priestley and Michael Biehn also star.
In 2002, a director’s cut of “Tombstone” was released on DVD, containing six extra minutes of footage, along with a host of extras. This 4K release is just the theatrical cut, in 4K and with English 5.1 DTS-HD MA and 2.0 Dolby Digital Descriptive Audio options. The special features on the new release include “The Making of Tombstone” featurettes, original storyboards for the O.K. Corral sequence and original marketing materials like TV spots and trailers. The physical 4K set will arrive as a collectible limited-edition SteelBook with custom artwork and packaging.
“Tombstone” was released on Christmas Day in 1993 by Disney’s adult-skewing Hollywood Pictures label. It was a mild hit at the time, making $73 million on its $25 million budget and was warmly received by critics (Roger Ebert recommended the movie, Gene Siskel did not) and by then-President Bill Clinton. But in the years since its initial release it has become something of a modern classic, widely quoted and discussed. In 2018, the book “The Making of Tombstone: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Modern Western” was published. And now we – finally! – have a deluxe 4K presentation of the movie. Yee-haw!
You can watch the “Tombstone” trailer in the video above.
