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Open Range (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• Producers Kevin Costner, Jake Eberts and 'David Valdes' put up almost half of the budget from their own money.
  
  
• Tig was not only the name of the dog in the movie, but also the name of the film's production company. Tig was also the name of Kevin Costner’s Grandmother.
  
  
• Kevin Costner turned down Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) to do this movie
  
  
• When we first see Denton Baxter in the sheriff's office, there is a wanted poster over his left shoulder with the name of Lloyd Buckley. Gae S. Buckley is the production designer for this film.
  
  
• Composer Michael Kamen replaced a score by Basil Poledouris.
  
  
• The rifle that Charley uses in the shootout is an 1873 Winchester sporting rifle.
  
  
• Originally the studio had Kevin Costner top-billed over 'Robert Duvall (I)', but Costner asked the studio to top-bill Duvall instead.
  
  
• Towards the end of film production, Kevin Costner and some friends made a surprise visit to a large pow wow gathering at Morley. Chief Ernest Wesley honored Costner for his work with the Lakota Indians and using the Sioux language in Dances with Wolves (1990).
  
  
• Stoney Elder Dale House performed a special spiritual ceremony for Kevin Costner before filming began. The event is shown on the second Open Range DVD disc.
  
  
• 'Clayton Lefthand' of the Stoney (Nakoda Sioux) First Nation worked as a film liaison.
  
  
• During the filming of Open Range a young Native man, Romeo N. Ryder, hired to do extra security work, was stabbed to death in the nearby town site of Morley on Aug. 20, 2002. His brother 'Zach Ryder' worked on the Open Range set as a production trainee.
  
  
• Boss keeps calling Percy, played by Michael Jeter, "Old Man". But Robert Duvall, who plays Boss, is actually 21 years older than Jeter, who was only 51 at the time the movie was made.
  
  
• On the DVD release, a deleted scene called "Mose's Story". This is only a rough cut, and it reveals that in some scenes, the beautiful sky and clouds were chroma keyed into the shot. In this rough edit, no attempt has been made to track the sky with the camera moves, and the effect is obvious.
  
  

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