age 80 in Los Angeles. Cast Production Costner was originally involved with the film Tombstone, another film about Wyatt Earp, written by Kevin Jarre of Glory. However, Costner disagreed with Jarre over the focus of the film (he believed that the emphasis should have been on Wyatt Earp rather than the many characters in Jarre's script) and left the project, eventually teaming up with Kasdan to produce his own Wyatt Earp project. The film was also originally meant to be a six-hour miniseries until Kevin Costner joined the cast. Costner proceeded to use his then-considerable clout to convince most of the major studios to refuse to distribute the competing film, which affected casting on the rival project. Soundtrack The score was composed by James Newton Howard, conducted by Marty Paich with The Hollywood Recording Musicians Orchestra and released by Warner Bros. Records in 1994. It was later re-released in 2013 in an expanded edition by La-La Land. "Main Title" "Home from the War" "Going to Town" "The Wagon Chase" "Mattie Wants Children" "Railroad" "Nicholas Springs Wyatt" "Is That Your Hat?" "The Wedding" "Stillwell Makes Bail" "It All Ends Now" "Urilla Dies" "Tell Me About Missouri" "The Night Before" "O.K. Corral" "Down by the River" "Kill 'Em All" "Dodge City" "Leaving Dodge" "Indian Charlie" "We Stayed Too Long" "Winter to Spring" "It Happened That Way" Release Box office Wyatt Earp, released six months after Tombstone, grossed $56 million on a $63 million budget, compared to Tombstone'''s $73 million gross on a $25 million budget. The film opened at number 4 at the US box office, grossing $7.5 million in its first week. It grossed $25 million in the United States and Canada, compared to Tombstone $56 milion. Internationally, Wyatt Earp was more successful grossing $31 million, compared to Tombstone $17 million, but this was not enough to recoup its budget, making it a box office bomb. Later Dennis Quaid said:“I personally thought it was too long. But I'm also really proud of it.“ Critical receptionWyatt Earp received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively gives the film a "rotten" score of 31%, based on 83 reviews, with an average rating of 5.4/10. The site's consensus states: "Easy to admire yet difficult to love, Wyatt Earp buries eye-catching direction and an impressive cast in an undisciplined and overlong story." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 47