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After flopping at the box office back in 1994, Wyatt Earp has become a hit on Netflix at the perfect time. Starring Kevin Costner as the titular lawman, the epic Western was released in theaters in the summer of 1994 and bombed at the box office, grossing just $55.9 million and failing to make back its $63 million budget.
Now, 32 years later, Wyatt Earp is No. 8 on Netflix's Top 10 movies in the United States for today, February 2. It ranks below The Rip at No. 1, Copshop, M3GAN 2.0, Night at the Museum, Faith in the Flames: The Nichole Jolly Story, Forever, and above Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart in 10th place.
It's a perfect time for Wyatt Earp to trend on Netflix since Kevin Costner's Western projects are in a bit of a lull. He left Yellowstone in 2024 and the future of his Horizon: An American Saga film series is uncertain, but he is also producing The Gray House, a Civil War miniseries which releases on Prime Video on February 26.
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with Dan Gordon, Wyatt Earp stars Kevin Costner as the titular lawman, following his early life to his career as a marshal and his involvement in the O.K. Corral gunfight.
The film's ensemble cast also includes Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday, Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Linden Ashby, Jeff Fahey, Joanna Going, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Pullman, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Sizemore, JoBeth Williams, Mare Winningham, James Gammon, Rex Linn, Adam Baldwin, Annabeth Gish, Lewis Smith, Betty Buckley, James Caviezel, Téa Leoni, and Martin Kove.
Wyatt Earp was also met with mixed reviews, resulting in a 31% Rotten Tomatoes score, with critics calling it easy to respect but hard to embrace, with its striking direction and strong cast buried under a sprawling and unfocused narrative. The movie has a much better 61% audience score.
An example of twin films, Wyatt Earp was developed in competition with Tombstone, another adaptation of Wyatt Earp's life (played by Kurt Russell), which was released six months earlier in 1993. While Wyatt Earp was met with middling reviews and bombed at the box office, Tombstone was a financial success that now frequently ranks among the best Western movies ever made.
Release Date June 24, 1994
Director Lawrence Kasdan
Writers Dan Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan
English (US) ·