Trivia

Began directing Tombstone (1993) from his own screenplay but was replaced by George P. Cosmatos. Jarre's scenes featuring Charlton Heston are still featured in the finished film.

He had a profound interest in history since childhood. He was especially fascinated by the American Civil War, which led to his in-depth research of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment which inspired his screenplay for Glory (1989).

Son of actress Laura Devon. She married actor Brian Kelly, and, later film composer Maurice Jarre. Jarre adopted Kevin.

Step-brother of Jean-Michel Jarre and Stéphanie Jarre.

Died on April 3, 2011 of heart failure. By coincidence, his mother also died of heart failure a few years earlier.

In early 1991, Jarre had written a screenplay adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula for Universal, while he was in Romania and Transylvania scouting locations, he was informed that the studio had shelved his Dracula project, when Francis Ford Coppola announced that he was making his own version for Columbia. However, in a September 1999 interview with dvdreview.com, actor Arnold Vosloo mentioned that Jarre was writing a new draft of the screenplay, and that Vosloo was interested in playing the title character.

Cousin of Writer/Director Abigail Bean.

The November 16, 1995 draft of the screenplay for The Jackal (1997) credits script revisions to Jarre (he was credited as producer in the final film).

In January 1994, The Los Angeles Times Reported that Jarre was hired by Columbia Pictures to do a rewrite on "Trackdown", an unmade screenplay written by Ron Mita and Jim McClain that Jodie Foster was previously attached to, according to Mita in a 2023 interview on the Imma Come Clean podcast, the rewrite was never completed due to Jarre suffering a nervous breakdown.

Co-wrote an unmade screenplay called "Blood Mark" with Desmond Nakano, James Jacks was slated to be producer.

Although he's credited with writing the story on Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Jarre often said that almost nothing of his original screenplay was left in the film.

In April 1994, Variety Magazine reported that Jarre was set to write a script for MGM, which was described as a Civil War suspense drama about Ward Hill Lamon, Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard, the project was based on a pitch by William R. Pace and Ronnie D. Clemmer, who were also slated to be producers.

He had written the original script for Judgment Night (1993) in the late 1980s, which was based on a story idea by Richard Di Lello, but his script would be rewritten by other writers, he was not credited on the film.

He often worked as an script doctor.

Early in his career, he had written an unmade screenplay called "Eternal War" that was sent to producer Paul Kohner.

He was a mentor to actress Christy Knowings, with whom he lived with for about 6 years before his death, Jarre was instrumental in the production of a docudrama and short film that Knowings wrote and directed surrounding the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Karl Marx, respectively.

In January 2001, Variety Magazine reported that Jarre was writing the script for The Alamo (2004).

He was considered by writer/director Steve De Jarnatt to work on a project about the Hell's Angels that would've starred Mickey Rourke.

He had worked on a screenplay with Derick Martini called Golden Gate Iron.

His filmmaking mentors were David Lean and John Milius.

In the early 1990's, he was romantically involved with actress Lisa Zane, he had written the role of Josephine Marcus in Tombstone (1993) with her in mind.

He had small acting parts in the television series, Flipper (1964).

He was a dog-sitter for writer/producer Alan Trustman.

According to copyright records, Jarre had worked on a project for Paramount called "Hot springs".

Jarre had proposed doing a remake of The Magnificent Seven (1960), but the script he had written was never produced.

He was a fan of John Ford's films.

Was one of several screenwriters that did rewrites on Navy Seals (1990), it is not known if any of his work ended up in the final film.

Around the time he was writing Tombstone, Jarre also was interested in writing and directing a film based on the life of Wild Bill Hickok.