Chris McPherson

Published Aug 30, 2026, 12:07 PM EDT

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell upwards into a senior position despite his best efforts.

For reasons unknown, he enjoys analyzing box office receipts, giant sharks, and has become known as the go-to man for all things Bosch, Mission: Impossible and Christopher Nolan in Collider’s news division. Recently, he found himself yeehawing along to the Dutton saga on the Yellowstone Ranch.

He is proficient in sarcasm, wit, Photoshop and working unfeasibly long hours. Amongst his passions sit the likes of the history of the Walt Disney Company, the construction of theme parks, steam trains and binge-watching Gilmore Girls with a coffee that is just hot enough to scald him.

His obsession with the Apple TV+ series Silo is the subject of mockery within the Senior News channel, where his feelings about Taylor Sheridan’s work are enough to make his fellow writers roll their eyes.

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More than three decades after its release, Tombstone has developed the kind of reputation that few movies ever achieve. The Western wasn’t particularly beloved by critics when it first arrived, but repeat viewings helped transform it into a bona fide classic, with Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday and **Michael Biehn**‘s Johnny Ringo becoming particularly beloved among fans. Given the famously turbulent production behind the movie, it’s hardly surprising that stories about missing material have persisted over the years. Unfortunately, anyone hoping there’s an enormous amount of unseen footage sitting in a Disney vault somewhere shouldn’t get too excited.

Speaking exclusively with Collider while promoting Onslaught, Biehn explained that Tombstone* did originally contain considerably more material* — but on the page, not on film**. According to the actor, Kevin Jarre’s original screenplay ran approximately 142 pages before the filmmaker was fired four weeks into production.

“It was a great, great script. It was 142 pages, so it should have been two and a half hours long. Kevin, who created it, did all the pre-production on it. They shot with Kevin for four weeks, and then they fired him.”

Biehn says it was Jarre’s reluctance and unwillingness to collaborate ultimately led to his dismissal despite having an enormously experienced cast and crew surrounding and supporting him. “I know why, because he wanted his way or the highway, and he was not very collaborative,” explained Biehn. “He had Kurt there, and he had William Fraker, the DP, who was an Academy Award winner. He had a bunch of great actors around him, and he just didn’t listen to anybody.”

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After Jarre’s departure, Biehn says Kurt Russell, and producer Jim Jacks and another writer spent a weekend drastically restructuring the screenplay so production could continue. Approximately 40 pages were removed, with Biehn saying virtually everyone in the ensemble lost material as a result.

“Over the weekend, they cut about 40 pages out of that script, so everybody lost a lot. The Cowboys always felt we got the raw end of that deal as far as some of the stuff that got cut out, because you never see the Cowboys unless they’re around the Earps, and that’s not the way it was in the script at all. They had a whole different life that they lived away from Tombstone. When I say life, two or three scenes.”

But here’s the important distinction: those scenes weren’t filmed and subsequently removed from Tombstone. They were eliminated from the screenplay before they could be shot. That means there isn’t a hidden version of the movie waiting to be reconstructed.

“People always say, ‘God, I’d love to see all the stuff they cut out of it. I’d love to see it back in again and see that movie.’ Well, it was never shot. There is no ‘there’ there. There is no recutting. Everything that was usable is on the screen.”

Tombstone is streaming now and *Onslaught *arrives in theaters on September 4.

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