Emilio Estevez reveals YOUNG GUNS 3 cast & storyline

So we have the young guns conversation now because there you know this is this is being talked five years in the making so this started before this started in 2019 and I approached John Fusco the original writer of horror films and I said hey John this is what I'm thinking and this was prior to the Mighty Ducks game-changers thing with Disney and all that I was like what do you think about this he said I think we should investigate I think we should start so I just started doing all the research staying in touch with John so what about this what about this great great great can I just backtrack for a second I'm just curious yeah your relationship to those two films like did you always have like a particular fondness for them was this like an itch that you always wanted to scratch because we've talked about like you're kind of like wrestling with nostalgia and wrestling with returning to things you know that Mighty Ducks was something you kind of like had to be dragged to kicking and screaming a little yeah yeah in both directions in and out but but why young guns why did this lure you back that you want to return to this well I'm gonna say something probably scary but playing Billy the kid that character is probably the closest I've ever played to anybody who was like me and not that I'm sociopathic however however it is it's probably the most fun I've ever had yeah playing a character he was so beautifully unhinged yeah and from what we know historically speaking that that is who he was that he was a prankster that he was a jokester that people adored him but they were also terrified of him because you never knew what direction you were gonna get on any given day and so I just had such an affinity for the character and over the years I've become very fond of the desert and and the southwest and I feel very at home in New Mexico and and again you raise a really interesting question and that is why would you want to go back to something when all you've talked about for the last 20 years is moving forward in this current climate of nostalgia and if I'm gonna get dragged back kicking and screaming how about I not get dragged yeah so the stuff you were kind of kicking or screaming yeah something that I really enjoyed yeah let's figure out a way to reboot this re-discover it re-examine it however you want to frame it and so I thought we already teased this idea with Brushy Bill Roberts I went to Hico Texas where Brushy Bill is buried spent time in this very small town in Central Texas and there is a compelling argument that he was not killed in Fort Sumner in 1881 there's a very compelling argument that Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid were too good of pals and Pat let him go I believe that story I know there are a lot of historians that cry foul on that and you know I'm sure then that and there that's valid as well but sure but I think that this take on history that he lived to be an old man and then died in 1950 after going to the governor governor Mabry in Santa Fe had an audience with the governor and stated his case and then three weeks later he was dead so there wasn't he didn't get a lot of time to to for for forensics but certainly the forensics that we have now sure and and the investigations to to get to where they to where we are now just so since we made the movie they they did a side-by-side comparison with the with a picture of Brushy Bill and a picture of the kid the only tintype photo that existed of the kid and they brought in a New York City forensic I you know one of those guys that does the the deep dive on the feature so how will you call that yeah facial recognition facial recognition thank you yeah so so this guy said without knowing what he was looking at actually went there so I said that's the same guy this is what percentage he says 99% that's the same guy so can you give without a look roll your cameras are not up yet but you do have locations you're trying to scout we started scouting locations in January then we had the LA fires raced back for that and it just went back a couple weeks ago met with the governor secured the tax credit scattered a bunch of Indian Pueblos which are gonna suit our our purposes for for a lot of the shooting and we just put brought on a casting director wonderful cast writer I worked with now and very respected probably top three casting directors you know I named Mary Verneu right Betty Mae you know her she's amazing and her team's awesome and so I of course I just got my cast list the night before I arrived here so tonight tomorrow morning I'm gonna start going through those and start putting together who I think are our candidates so so back back at young guns to sadly between those first two films most everyone was killed off that's right no that's right and but Lou has been talking about it right Lou Lou returns Christian Slater returns we didn't see either and die on camera we certainly didn't see Billy the Kid dying right and if you want to continue the narrative of the brushy bill story there are there's a potential for three four and five whether I'm in the other the next installment or not it's but I already have an idea for what that is for what four is but has Bon Jovi been contacted is not allowed to say all I can say would you like to have him contribute in some way I'm not allowed to say John is John has remained a friend yeah and and and he's very enthusiastic about being involved with this very now with all due respect the title you're a young man still when you're young at heart right what's it called young guns three okay dead or alive okay so it begs the question is he dead is he alive right it also it also tucks into John's song wanted dead or alive so there's that little Easter egg but it does center on a bunch of new regulators mostly Latino indigenous people and it takes place most of the film takes place in Mexico yeah and it it falls on the on the eve of the Mexican Revolution so you have a young Pancho Villa who was 28 at the time you have his group of soldados true believers and revolutionaries who are all kids yeah you had a human trafficking ring going on on the border he was he was taking kids from the Pueblos and consigning him to his army they were grabbing kids off the orphan train and there was a whole cabal of people the Germans were there yeah it there's so much history that was going on on the border and then of course during the Mexican Revolution the Germans were funding Pancho Villa because the Americans were just they were not interested they looked down their nose at that McDonald's so the Germans were you know provided gold and arms and they were also spying on America this was also right you know a few years before World War one so all of this is happening south of the border and Billy the kid meets Pancho Villa and he is asked to come along and train his young men so in so that that's basically the story so I am I become the Tunstall character right in many ways yeah and bring this group of young mostly Latino young men in through the paces and then all hell breaks loose and so it's the setup is great it sounds a lot of fun I have a long history of talking to actors about these kind of dream legacy projects like Bill and Ted three I feel like I was talking to Alex and Kiana for ten years right so I'm hoping we can push this to the finish line because clearly there's a passion there and clearly there's a will there's a way and it's and it's a big Latino cast yeah big indigenous people cast and without feeling like it's it feels natural yeah doesn't it doesn't feel like it's oh god you know they made the woke version of young guns yeah this is natural this is organic to what was happening at the time so that's exciting for me well it's exciting to see you're excited about it that's the most important and I know and there's so many great yeah Hispanic Latino actors right now you get Anthony Ramos and you've got this kid from reservation dogs I think we were talking about that yesterday deferral when it's I yeah and so there's this great untapped talent that's yeah are gonna be really exciting to see your cast in this movie all right I'll be visiting you on sets please I mean no please be great