George's rifle is a scoped Winchester Model 70.
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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This movie, first known as "The Johnson County War", was turned down by all of the major studios, until United Artists green-lit the project after Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978) won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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At one point during filming, Michael Cimino decided that the spacing of the buildings on one set didn't look right, even though it had been built to his exact specifications. He ordered both sides of the street to be raised and rebuilt, at a cost of $1.2 million dollars, over the objections of his crew, who reasoned that it would be easier and cheaper to knock down one side of the street and rebuild it twice as far away.
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When this movie was earlier known as "The Johnson County War" prior to being made, it was originally announced as a Michael Winner project, with Steve McQueen starring. The latter ended up starring in another western, Tom Horn (1980), which debuted the same year as this movie.
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The cost overruns on this movie are also sometimes blamed for United Artists being unable to fund an Oscar campaign for Raging Bull (1980), which is why that movie failed to win Best Picture.
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The budget escalated from 11.6 million dollars to forty million dollars.
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While doing press for Desperate Hours (1990) in the fall of 1990, Michael Cimino, in a television interview, claimed full responsibility for what had happened during the making of this movie.
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The cast includes three Oscar winners: Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, and T Bone Burnett; and seven Oscar nominees: Kris Kristofferson, Sir John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Brad Dourif, and Isabelle Huppert.
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Kris Kristofferson has said that he'll be proud of the movie as long as he's in the business. Jeff Bridges said that he likes it better every time he sees it.
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Second of two movies that Jeff Bridges made with Writer and Director Michael Cimino. The first was Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974).
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Sir John Hurt spent so long waiting around for something to do that he made The Elephant Man (1980), then came back to shoot more scenes for this movie.
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Heaven's Gate - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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