If you’re currently caught up in Kevin Costner fever thanks to Yellowstone on Netflix, you can still watch an older western with the star on the streaming service for a short time. The biopic Wyatt Earp – The Life of a Legend, in which Costner embodies a real personality, is streaming until the end of the month. The over 3 hour long epic from 1994 flopped at the box office. You can watch the film on Netflix until February 29, 2024 stream.
Just briefly on Netflix: That’s what the Kevin Costner western Wyatt Earp is about
In the western drama, Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan tells the true story of the legendary gunslinger who lived from 1848 to 1929. The plot begins with a young Wyatt who first wants to go to war in the civil war and is then put off by the sight of his older veteran brothers. Later he works as Buffalo hunter and deputy sheriff in Witchitawhere after shooting a bandit he forms a group with like-minded people to ensure law and order.
Wyatt Earp was a disaster for Kevin Costner
The 190-minute-long film was a commercial flop at the time. According to Box Office Mojo, Wyatt Earp only grossed around $25 million worldwide on a budget of $63 million.
Another humiliation followed in 1995 when Kevin Costner died at the Golden Raspberry Awards “Award” for Worst Actor got. The film also received a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst remake. He was nominated for best cinematography at the Oscars. But there was no award here.