Top Gun 2 was put on hold last year following the tragic death of director Tony Scott, but now the project is slowly but surely getting back on track. "For 30 years we've been trying to make a sequel and we're not going to stop," producer Jerry Bruckheimer said at this weekend's Produced By conference.…
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Sometimes movie studios come to CinemaCon (formerly ShoWest) to screen early cuts of their films. Dreamworks Animation came to Vegas in 2008 with an early cut of Kung Fu Panda with temp score and sequences of storyboards or unfinished rendered animation. A few years back Disney arrived at the convention with an early cut of Toy…
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Odds are you're already plenty familiar with the Lone Ranger and Tonto, who've been kicking around the pop cultural landscape for the better part of a century. And you probably also have a fairly good idea of what Gore Verbinski's done with the characters in the upcoming The Lone Ranger film, thanks to all the…
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The full-length trailer for Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger released this week promised plenty of good stuff from the film: sweeping Western vistas, death-defying stunts, massive explosions, a banged-up Armie Hammer, and a weirdo Johnny Depp. One thing we won't be getting, however, is a score from Jack White. The former White Stripes frontman signed…
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On the first official day of San Diego Comic Con 2012, Walt Disney Pictures presented a panel which included footage from their upcoming video game animated feature Wreck It Ralph, Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel OZ: The Great and Powerful, and the first production teaser trailer for Gore Verbinski's Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp.…
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Briefly: Not wanting to be left out of the fun, Disney has changed the release dates of two major 2013 releases. First, Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger has moved back from its May 31 release to July 3, 2013, a date previously occupied by Steven Spielberg's Robopocalypse. Then there's Alan Taylor's Thor 2 which will…
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There's some big movie score news today. Earlier this afternoon Moby was announced as the choice to score The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, which has Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Melissa Leo and Til Schweiger lined up to star in a story about a guy (LaBeouf) who falls for a girl (Wood)…
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Even if you aren't familiar with the original look of Tonto on TV's The Lone Ranger, it's pretty obvious Johnny Depp's reinterpretation of it is totally out of left field. Depp is currently sporting this look on the set of The Lone Ranger with director Gore Verbinski, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Armie Hammer as the title…
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Dwight Yoakum is out and William Fichtner is in. The talented character actor who is perhaps best known for his short but sweet scene at the beginning of The Dark Knight has been cast as the villain in Gore Verbinski's 2013 Disney action film Lone Ranger opposite Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp as the Ranger…
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Before Disney put Gore Verbinski's Lone Ranger on ice for a few weeks the film had two stars lined up, Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, and a supporting cast that was set to include Ruth Wilson (Luther), as well as Barry Pepper, Helena Bonham Carter, James Badge Dale and Dwight Yoakam. When the film came…
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Johnny Depp has, improbably, become one of the world's biggest movie stars. He has a great number of projects in the works, from Dark Shadows and a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie to Lone Ranger, The Thin Man and, a bit further on the horizon, a possible biopic of Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss.…
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Now that Disney is moving forward with Lone Ranger, even giving the movie a revised release date (May 31, 2013 -- more on that movie in a few minutes) the studio is moving some other things around. Most notably, Disney has pushed Thor 2 back from July 26 2013 to November 15, 2013. That July…
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We're still talking about Disney's crazy-ass $215m Lone Ranger, to be directed by Gore Verbinski with Johnny Depp playing Tonto and Armie Hammer as the Ranger, because Disney is still planning to make the damn thing. The studio put the project on hold weeks ago, then went through quite a bit of public wrangling over…
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Are you tired of the back and forth, 'maybe they will, maybe they won't' non-action on Disney's Lone Ranger? If so, you might be in luck, at least if the idea of the movie happening still seems like a good idea. The studio looks like it is ready to re-commit to the project with Jerry…
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Today in The Continuing Adventures of Disney's Lone Ranger, that film production cliffhanger that I'm not certain actually has people on pins and needles to discover what happens next, we've got budget cuts and stalwart friendship. One of those things is, at least, a core value of the Lone Ranger. What we've known so far…
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Speculation continues as to whether Disney will or won't bankroll a $200m Lone Ranger from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski and star Johnny Depp. The studio canned the film just over a week ago thanks to budgetary concerns (it was running north of $250m) but various sources within Disney have indicated the project remains…
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At the end of last week the biggest news might have been that Disney had canceled development of Gore Verbinski's Lone Ranger, which was set to star Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the title character. At issue was the budget. The film, based on a script full of visualizations of Native American…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed the official logo for Walt Disney Pictures' Lone Ranger on his new official website. Hit the jump to see the full logo. source: Twitter (via: Bleedingcool) Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director Gore Verbinski is signed to direct, reteaming with Johnny Depp. No word yet on who'll play the Lone Ranger;…
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Another great Tweetscoop from Production Weekly tells us that Mike Newell is "in talks to direct Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott's big screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger at Disney." I may have recently had trouble calling Newell's surname to mind (ahem) but I've definitely enjoyed a good number of his films over the years.…
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