Sometimes even Johnny Depp is too expensive. Deadline is reporting that Disney has pulled the plug on The Lone Ranger, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Gore Verbinski-directed action western based on the classic TV show that was scheduled for release next Christmas. According to reports, the proposed budget came in north of $240 million and even when it was cut back, was still more than $230 million. With expensive films like John Carter and Oz The Great and Powerful already at various stages of production, and The Lone Ranger not yet shooting, Disney cancelled the film to save some bucks. There’s more after the jump. Read More »
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Disney, Jerry Bruckheimer and Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director Gore Verbinski are really, truly making a new Lone Ranger, in which Johnny Depp will star as a sort of revisionist Tonto, with Armie Hammer (The Social Network, J. Edgar) playing the titular ranger. Now two Western veterans, Dwight Yoakam and Barry Pepper, are in talks for the film. Just for good measure Helena Bonham Carter is likely to join the cast, thereby making Lone Ranger a bridge between Johnny Depp’s major movie worlds, Tim Burton and Pirates of the Caribbean. Read More »
Posted on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 by Angie Han
Ruth Wilson will be breaking into the boys’ club as the female lead of Gore Verbinski‘s The Lone Ranger, starring Armie Hammer as the Texas ranger and Johnny Depp as his sidekick Tonto. Although Wilson’s name may be unfamiliar to most Americans, she’s known in the UK for her work on the BBC’s Luther and the Masterpiece Theatre miniseries Jane Eyre. Wilson was selected over Jessica Chastain and Abbie Cornish, who were also being considered for the part, and is currently in negotiations. Very few details have been revealed about her character, named Rebecca.
Unlike the earlier versions of the property, Verbinski’s Lone Ranger will be told from Tonto’s perspective — “Don Quixote told from Sancho Panza’s point of view,” as Verbinski has described it. The film will hit theaters December 21. [Deadline]
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Posted on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 by Angie Han
We’ve already discussed at this space the ways in which Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer seem like excellent choices to play the Lone Ranger and Tonto, respectively, in the new The Lone Ranger film. Now another actor may be joining the mix as well. Tom Wilkinson is reportedly “in early talks” for a major part in the Disney Western, which is being directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Read more after the jump.
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Next Christmas, get your “Hi-yoo Silver!” on as Disney has now set a holiday release date for The Lone Ranger. Directed by Gore Verbinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Armie Hammer as the title character and Johnny Depp as Tonto, the film is scheduled to hit the big screen on December 21, 2012. Read more after the break. Read More »
Several weeks ago we reported that Armie Hammer – star of The Social Network, the currently filming J. Edgar and the upcoming Julia Roberts’ Snow White film – was in talks to play The Lone Ranger in the film of the same name, directed by Gore Verbinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and co-starring Johnny Depp as Tonto. Those talks apparently went well and now Hammer has been cast in the film.
According to Variety, who broke the news of the casting, The Lone Ranger could be released as early as Fall 2012 as it should be ready to shoot after Depp is done with Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. Read More »
Gore Verbinski may have his second star to appear in The Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp‘s Tonto. Armie Hammer, who broke out big with The Social Network, co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and has been tapped for Relativity’s Snow White, is in early talks to play the ‘star’ of this new look at one of America’s big Western heroes. Read More »
There might be some serious irony here. Johnny Depp was once cast as a version of Sancho Panza in Terry Gilliam’s film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. That first version of Mr. Gilliam’s film was shut down. When it was briefly revived, Johnny Depp was no longer along for the ride, in part because of his packed blockbuster schedule.
One of those blockbusters is The Lone Ranger, to be directed by Pirates of the Caribbean and Rango director Gore Verbinski for Disney. The director has been saying that the film’s version of Tonto, to be played by Johnny Depp, is much like Sancho Panza. More to the point, Tonto will really be the main character of this version of the story. Now he has elaborated on that angle to some degree. Read More »
