Young Guns

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Name: Young Guns
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Creator: 20th Century Fox, John Fusco
Date(s): 1988
Medium: live-action film
Country of Origin: United States
External Links: Wikipedia
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Young Guns is a 1988 Western film set in New Mexico in the late 1870s, which portrays the adventures of Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War. It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips and Dermot Mulroney, among other fannish BSOs.

It is part of the Kiefer/Lou fandom.

A sequel to the film, Young Guns II, was released in August 1990. In 2021, it was announced that a third installment, Guns 3: Alias Billy the Kid is in the works, with Estevez, Phillips, and Christian Slater (Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh in Young Guns II) reprising their roles.[1][2]

Canon

John Tunstall (Terence Stamp) is an English cattle rancher who hires wayward young men to work at his ranch, where he educates and mentors them. When Tunstall is murdered, they form a deputized posse called The Regulators to avenge him. However, newcomer William H. Bonney (Emilio Estevez)—aka Billy the Kid—vies for leadership and turns the group into outlaws.

The others members of the group are Josiah "Doc" Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland), who writes poetry; Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), a Mexican-Navajo whose tribe was murdered; Dick Brewer (Charlie Sheen), the group's original leader; Dirty Steve Stephens (Dermot Mulroney); and Charlie Bowdre (Casey Siemaszko). Their friend and lawyer Alex McSween (Terry O'Quinn) assists the group.

Young Guns II picks up about a year after the group goes their separate ways and takes more creative license with historical events than its predecessor. Billy has formed a new gang and reunites with Doc and Chavez while the authorities try to arrest them and hire Billy's ex-ally Pat Garrett (William Petersen) to kill him.

Fandom

Cover of Dyad #5 (1990), art by Adrian Morgan. Doc and Chavez (Kiefer and Lou) on horseback.

Young Guns stories appeared in many multifandom anthology zines of the eighties and nineties, such as Adult Situations and Awakenings, as well as Western-themed zines like Bite the Bullet and Kiefer/Lou zines like Renegade Souls.

As of December 2022, there are over 60 fanworks at Archive of Our Own and over 107 fanfics at FanFiction.Net.

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