Teaser Trailer: Gore Verbinski's Rango

Paramount Pictures has released the first movie trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski's computer animated feature film Rango. Based on an original idea by Verbinski, Rango is scripted by The Aviator scribe John Logan. Johnny Depp stars as an "chameleon with an identity crisis." PRevious information has stated that Rango  is "a oddly charismatic household pet that goes on an adventure to discover its true self." The movie co-stars Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, and Timothy Olyphant as The Spirit of the West.

But the most interesting thing about this new project is that Industrial Light & Magic will be doing the animation using "cutting edge techniques" that Verbinski has said, "will allow us to capture and translate every aspect of Johnny's performance, using it to drive the computer-generated character in a way that has yet to be seen in an animated feature." Basically it sounds like Verbinski has gone the way of Robert Zemeckis.

The trailer, embedded after the jump, doesn't really show us much. It's more of a "what the f*** did I just see" kind of teaser trailers. Watch it now after the jump and please leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Rango it set to hit theaters on March 4th 2011.