The Cowboy Way

The Cowboy Way (1994)

How the East was won.

Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.

Date of release
1994-06-03
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (170)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Director
Gregg Champion

Casting

Interesting facts

The Cowboy Way is a 1994 American action comedy Western film directed by Gregg Champion and starring Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland.

Production

The film was originally written under the title of Pistoleers by Rob Thompson in 1986.

William D. Wittliff was hired by the studio to rewrite the script, and detailing his experience remarked:

My first couple of drafts were set in New York City--then Crocodile Dundee came out and the studio asked me to reset the story in Washington, D. C. to avoid comparison. Against my better judgment I agreed to give it a try and the whole thing (meaning the writing) went downhill after that."

Nick Castle developed a draft of the script in 1989 that ultimately went unused.

In January 1993, it was reported that Woody Harrelson and Brad Pitt were being courted by Imagine Entertainment to star in the William D. Wittliff scripted action-adventure film The Cowboy Way about two New Mexico cowboys who travel to New York City to rescue their ranch hand's kidnapped daughter. In April of that year, Gregg Champion was set to direct with Harrelson confirmed as one of the leads with the search for a co-lead continuing.

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