Tombstone Rashomon

Tombstone Rashomon
Tombstone Rashomon
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alex Cox
Written by	Alex Cox
Produced by	Max Arvelaiz; Ward Churchill; Alex Cox; Merritt Crocker; Kyle Curry; Travis Mills; John M. Oswald; Fernando Sulichin; Robert S. Wilson
Starring	Adam Newberry; Eric Schumacher
Cinematography	Alana Murphy
Edited by	Merritt Crocker
Music by	Dan Wool
Production; company	Tombstone Limited
Release date	April 8, 2017;
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Tombstone Rashomon is a 2017 Western film directed by Alex Cox and starring Adam Newberry and Eric Schumacher. It tells the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, from multiple differing perspectives in the style of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon.

Plot synopsis

A film crew travels back in time to film the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. They arrive after the gunfight, however, and can only interview those involved. They interview Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Kate, Ike Clanton, Colonel Roderick Hafford, and Johnny Behan, each of whom has a different take on the events.

Cast

Adam Newberry as Wyatt Earp
Jesse Lee Pacheco as Johnny Behan
Christine Doidge as Kate
Eric Schumacher as Doc Holliday
Benny Lee Kennedy as Ike Clanton
Richard Anderson as Hafford
Jason Graham as Virgil Earp
Shayn Herndon as Morgan Earp
Michele Bauer as Allie Earp
Haydn Winston as Frank McLaury
Bradford Trojan as Tom McLaury
James Miller as Billy Clanton
Callie Hutchison as Mattie Earp
Rogelio Camarillo as Billy Claiborne
Brenda Jean Foley as Mollie Fly
Frank Gonzalez as Ned Boyle
Wade Everett as William B. Murray
Pablo Kjolseth as C.S. Fly
Geoff Marslett as Charles Shibell
Merritt Crocker as Bill Leonard
Carlos Abdalla as Albert Behan
Oz as William Baron (barber)
Frank Balden as Keefe
Jeremy Hamley as Sheriff's Deputy
Susan Sebanc as Interviewer
William Long as Bartender
Khameiah Williamson as Butcher
Steve Burton as Blacksmith
Charles Scanlon as Ed Schieffelin

Production

As with his previous film Bill, the Galactic Hero (2014), Alex Cox used crowdfunding to finance the production of the film.^[1] This time he used an Indiegogo campaign.^[2]

In an interview with IndieWire, Cox stated, "I was thinking it would be a conventional western, but Rudy (Wurlitzer) wants to give it a science fiction angle — from the perspective of time-traveling women historians from the future. They’ll time-travel back in time to film at the OK Corral, but they get the day wrong and they miss it by a day, so they have to interview the survivors." Wurlitzer was involved in early stages, but not credited as a writer on the final film, the screenplay is solely credited to Cox.^[3]

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Cox stated that he had originally planned to film in Boulder, Colorado, but then decided to shoot in Tucson instead.^[4]

Filming took place at the Old Tucson Studios west of Tucson.^[5] In an interview with Tucson Weekly, Cox stated that the producers of Snowden matched the funds already accumulated, helping Cox to complete the film.^[6]

Release

The film screened as a work in progress at the Ashland Independent Film Festival at 6:40 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, 2017,^[7]^[8] at the Cinedelphia Film Festival at 7:00 p.m. on April 15, 2017,^[9] and at the Loft Film Fest on May 27, 2017.^[10]^[11]