Although the 1988 summer film season would not officially launch until the opening of May 20 by Ron Howard and George Lucas, "Willow" of the "Willow" movie, Hungry for Spectacle, after withstanding an unusually weak spring (led by Tim Burton. And Oscar winner states such as "The Last Emperor" and "Moonstruck") looked forward a few weeks before the start and wondered which of the study's big tickets would satisfy as completely as "untouchable", "Robocop" and " The predator "did the previous year. In the middle of the head of the mostly reckless sequel, there were two seemingly reliable things (Robert Knatis "who frames Roger Rabbit" and Eddie Murphy's vehicle "comes to America") and scattering the originals that covered some of the largest stars in the industry in the industry.

And then there was "hard died".

As you probably know, the classic of Johnon McCernan initially considered it as a sideways nonsense based on Fox's iousubopite decision to pay TV -Commed Starwar Bruce Willis Then a huge $ 5 million to hope to become the next Stallone or Schwarzenegger. Until then, Willis starred in only one movie, Blake Edwards' romantic comedy "Blind Date", which received bad reviews while earning so much $ 39 million with a $ 16 million budget. Since it opened a week before the most accomplished television event of the season (ie the episode "Moon" in which Willis and Sibyl Shepard finally wasted two years of boiling sexual tension), conventional wisdom had that Willis had Willis managed to make the jump to the Ardwar on the big screen.

This did "die" a massive roll of cubes For Fox, the one who would not call on the release of the film in July. But for three months outside his opening, Willis had a chance to fuel the studio's hopes by acting in an extramarital affair playing with Western lawyer Wyatt Erp. How did that succeed?

While the "Blind Date" was absolutely wrong in Blake Edwards' career, he at least exposed the feeling of making Willis, Glib David Adison, to work in a movie. He just had to find the right material, something that wasn't that was not so wildly spiritual. Maybe try to rely on Willis' innate probability this time.

Another romantic comedy may have made the trick, but Edwards was in a sentimental mood after a "blind date". Working from an unpublished novel by Rod Amato (who blessed the world in 1987 as a director and co-writer of "Film Film for Trash"), he took out the "Sunset" scenario, a 1929 Hollywood comedy in which the quiet Western Starwarray Tom Mix (Willis) teamed up with the real Wyatt Erp (Jamesiyes Garner) to resolve the murder.

It sounds like fun, right? Although it was missed at that time to be without charm and relentlessly invaluable, I think it has its moments. The opening scene in Willis, appearing as a mixture in an unnamed western, has some terrible stunts to ride horses (some of the falls are incredibly thrilled), and it is occasionally a pleasure to see Willis and Garner communicate as two very different types of legends. However, it was not a pleasure for Garner, who said the next on his co-star In an interview in 1994 with Movieline:

"Villis is high school. He's not that serious about his job. He thinks he's so clever that he can only take a walk through it, collect dialogue and work. I think you don't work that way."

While the "sunset" fueled critics, everything that was important to Hollywood was what the public thought of the film. Did they split up and went to their local theaters?

Tri-Star Pictures announced "Sunset" on April 29, 1988, and well, the good news is that it has surpassed the only other new movie on the market that weekend: "Criteria 2 of Mick Garris: The main course" (What, I will say with a hint of sarcasm, is a far superior film). The pretty terrible news was that it finished sixth for the weekend, coming behind films in cinemas for up to six weeks (including "colors", "over the law" and "Billxy blues"). The poor performance of the film frightened the 20th -century fox so much that he subsequently removed Willis's mug from Die Hard printing ads while listing his name under the title. That is How poorly the "sunset" has been obtained.

However, everyone said the film didn't hurt anyone's career. Despite his lavish details of the 1929 period (which is strictly shot by Edwards and cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond, who is a long way out of his masterful work on "Don't Look Now" by Nicholas Rogge), cost only $ 16 million. This does not mean that anyone was thrilled by their $ 4.6 million gross, but this is what they received in 1988 to combine Western/Showbiz - two genres that were very difficult at the time. Willis became one of the biggest movie stars in the world, Garner worked when he wanted to work (achieving a comeback -a hit hit in 1994 opposite Mel Gibson and Ododi Foster in Richard Donner's "Maverick"), and Edwards retired in 1989 (treasurer- Wisely, at least) with a sex comedy of Rabald's "Deep Skin".