Key Takeaways
- Development Status: Young Guns 3 is currently in development with Estevez set to reprise his role.
- Script Approval: Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed the script has his approval, which is a positive sign for fans.
- Returning Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips and Christian Slater are expected to return for the sequel.
- No Release Date: As of now, there is no official release date for Young Guns 3.
It’s been 36 long years since Billy the Kid rode onto the big screen alongside the Regulators, but wouldn’t you know it, you can’t keep a gang of Young Guns down forever. Rumors have swirled for what feels like decades about a third installment, but now, Kiefer Sutherland has given perhaps the most encouraging update yet. Sutherland recently reunited once again with his co-star Lou Diamond Phillips for a Young Guns panel at FanX Salt Lake, moderated by Collider’s Maggie Lovitt, where chat turned to the long-awaited third installment.
While Sutherland’s Doc Scurlock encountered the small problem of being absolutely riddled with bullets in Young Guns II, the actor confirmed he has discussed the project with Estevez, who apparently isn’t entirely convinced Doc has to stay dead. “He looked at me and said, ‘Well, no one saw you die, dude.’ I held the world record for the amount of squibs on a human being for three years, and I had 72 rounds that were shot at me,” said Sutherland. “And he said, ‘Well, maybe they didn’t end up [killing you].’ I said, ‘This conversation is over.’ But I promise you, the script is amazing, and it’s going to be with Lou and Emilio and a new cast.”
Phillips also suggested that Christian Slater, who joined the franchise as Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh in Young Guns II, is expected to return. When the pair were asked whether shooting might begin soon, Phillips indicated that Estevez is currently working to get the project moving.
Which Western Icon Are You Most Like?
No Name · Doc Holliday · Wyatt Earp · Mattie Ross
Pick your name, your gun, your horse and how you spend a night in town, and we will tell you which legend of the Old West you would have been. Four icons are waiting at the end of this: the stranger who never gives his name, the gambler who would die for a friend, the lawman who never wanted the badge, and the girl nobody has ever talked out of anything.
No Name<span class=”CQ-TYPE-SHOW”(Dollars Trilogy)
Doc Holliday<span class=”CQ-TYPE-SHOW”(Tombstone)
Wyatt Earp<span class=”CQ-TYPE-SHOW”(Tombstone)
Mattie Ross<span class=”CQ-TYPE-SHOW”(True Grit)
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The town is about to learn your name. What do they call you?
In a Western, what people call you is already half the character.
02
What are you carrying?
Everything out here is character, right down to what is sitting on your hip.
03
What are you riding?
A hero and their horse is one of the oldest relationships in cinema.
Something plain that nobody in town would look at twice.
Whatever I won last night which may not be strictly mine yet.
A big steady horse that will not spook when things get loud.
A pony I overpaid for and named myself and I will hear nothing against him.
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You have got one evening in town. How does it go?
The saloon is where these films quietly tell you who somebody really is.
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The Dust Has Settled
Your Western Icon Is…
<pCLASS=CQ-RRESULT INTRO TEXT Four icons and four completely different ways of walking into trouble.
This is the one you would have been out there why it fits and what it would have cost you.
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The Dollars Trilogy · 1964–1966
The Man With No Name
CYou have never explained yourself and you have never needed to,
because people work out fairly quickly that you are the most capable person in the room
without you ever having to mention it.
<liEastwood built the character out of everything he refused to do stripping away backstory speeches every bit of reassurance until only competence was left.
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Doc Holliday · Tombstone · 1993
Doc Holliday
You are funniest person in most rooms; most loyal person in all of them; genuinely insulted if somebody suggested those two things were in any tension.
<liDoc has no real reason to be in this fight beyond fact that his friend is in it which is only reason he has ever needed for anything.
<liVal Kilmer's performance is most quoted in entire genre because jokes keep getting sharper as situation gets worse.
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Wyatt Earp · Tombstone · 1993
Wyatt Earp
You never wanted this job; took anyway because alternative was standing there watching somebody less careful do badly which is most Western reason there has ever been.
<liEarp is reluctant authority figure man who came town specifically to be left alone somehow ended up answerable for all of it.
<liThese films understand keeping order costs far more than breaking it; person holding line almost never gets thanked.
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Mattie Ross · True Grit · 1969 & 2010
Mattie Ross
Nobody has ever successfully talked you out of something had already decided was right; long line grown adults found out hard way.
<liMattie most relentless character Western canon manages through argument paperwork flat refusal rather than fast draw.
<liYou have no patience for being managed so negotiate check details turn up exactly when said would.
<liTrue Grit rare Western where moral centre youngest person screen every adult around her catch up.
<liYou would get what came for film honest about what takes out of you.
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