Production
The film was written by David Webb Peoples, who had written the Oscar-nominated film The Day After Trinity and co-wrote Blade Runner. The concept for the film dated as far back as 1976 under the titles The Cut-Whore Killings and The William Munny Killings. Eastwood delayed the project, partly because he wanted to wait until he was old enough to play his character and to savor it as the last of his western films. Many said this was to be Eastwood's last film as director and actor, but he chose to keep directing and he quit acting in his own films with the 2008 film Gran Torino. Much of the cinematography for the film was shot in Alberta in August 1991 by director of photography Jack Green. Filming took place over 52 days between September and October 1991. Production designer Henry Bumstead, who had worked with Eastwood on High Plains Drifter, was hired to create the "drained, wintry look" of the western.
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