Daily Dialogue — March 20, 2018

Frank McLaury: I’ve got you now… you son of a bitch!
Doc Holliday: [holds up arms] You’re a daisy if you do!

— Tombstone (1993), written by Kevin Jarre

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Standoff.

Trivia: Kevin Jarre’s original script for this movie was significantly longer than the final film. It was intended to be an epic, detailing the lives of all the combatant parties in the story. After Jarre was fired as director, George P. Cosmatos hired John Fasano to trim the script to focus primarily on the Earp family (to make the already-delayed shoot more manageable). Fasano received co-author credit in early promotional materials, but his name was removed from the film’s credits (probably due to Writer Guild arbitration). Instead, Fasano was given an Associate Producer credit.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The dialogue cited above is actually supposed to have occurred in the real Gunfight at the OK Corral.