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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT John Wayne was one of the first actors offered what would become the Western genre's most notorious flop, but his involvement could have saved it. John Wayne starred in 80 Westerns throughout his career, with The Searchers and Rio Bravo considered among his finest work. On the flip side, he had some duds too, such as later career efforts Cahill U.S. Marshal or Howard Hawks' Rio Lobo.
The 1980s was the worst decade for Westerns, largely due to the failure of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. Cimino was coming hot off of The Deer Hunter and was given a blank check to do this passion project set during the Johnson County War. United Artists gave the filmmaker total creative control, but his exacting style and demand for perfectionism saw the budget swell to four times its original size.
More than anything, Wayne would have brought some star power to Heaven's Gate and aided its box office chances. Part of the movie's legacy is that Cimino was given such free creative reign, resulting in a flawed, fascinating epic. Had Wayne been his star, an arguably less ambitious film may have resulted.
Wayne presented the Oscar for Best Picture to The Deer Hunter, presenting Cimino and the film's producers with their statues. The ceremony was held on April 9th, while Heaven's Gate began filming only a week later. Wayne himself would pass only two months after this Academy Awards ceremony in June 1979, at the age of 72.
The movie's failure saw studios seeking greater control and giving filmmakers less creative leeway. For decades, Heaven's Gate was a punchline and became the poster child for a director's ego run amok, but slowly, that perception began to shift. After Cimino unveiled a new director's cut of his film in 2012, the Western was finally greeted with a warm critical response.
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