![]() ![]() The following is the story of how Young Guns got made and how it entered into steady rotation on the TV in my childhood home. The passion project of a 27-year-old screenwriting wunderkind and largely financed through money from Subaru dealerships, this Billy the Kid movie has always failed to garner much critical respect, yet it remains one of my favorite westerns. It all started with Young Guns, the Brat Pack western which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month and is newly available on Netflix. They won Oscars, starred some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and inspired Bon Jovi to sing about riding on steel horses and being shot down in a blaze of glory. However, for a good 6 years westerns were cool again. Film financiers didn’t see a profit in it and audiences lost their appetite for it. The genre, of course, fizzled out again and faded from memory. The western, which used to be as common in Hollywood as superhero movies are now, enjoyed a surprising revival in popularity in the late 1980s into the 90s. ![]()
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