"The Lone Ranger" Teaser Poster
THE MOVIE: The Pirates of the Caribbean director is adapting the Western classic about a cowboy crime-fighter and his Native American sidekick in a “Don Quixote” fashion, where the titular character is the fool, and his buddy, Tonto, is the star. The film has a May 31, 2013 release date.
Updates: Beyond Hollywood has your first glimpse of the Depp and Hammer in costume as Tonto and the Lone Ranger, respectively. | Cinema Blend has a quote from Depp explaining his look. Also, TNH has some aerial shots of the set. | Collider has new images from the set.
The first official footage from Lone Ranger was screened at this year’s Comic Con. AICN has a description. | Collider has a video of Johnny Depp in Tonto costume/makeup on the set. | Collider has some shots of Depp in costume on the set.
The Flickering Myth has a pack of new photos from the film. Also, check out the first teaser poster. | Watch the first trailer, courtesy of Rope of Silicon. | The second trailer is now available. The trailer is also available via Apple Quicktime.| Here’s a new poster and the Super Bowl TV spot. | AICN has a new Japanese trailer for the film. | Check out two new character posters, featuring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer.
BREAKING NEWS: The final theatrical trailer is now online.
To me, this is one of the most interesting bits of entertainment news this week. That Disney would can a Gore Verbinski/Johnny Depp movie kind of blows the mind. At the same time, it’s hard to believe that a Lone Ranger movie could ever cost $250 million to make. $50 million for those two guys’ salary, maybe, but then where is the rest of it going? As someone else said, all you need is guns and horses.
Lots of speculation as to why the film was canned. Was reading that Disney didn’t think they could market a Western overseas, when they’re counting on big international box office for their films these days. What else? Supposedly “John Carter” has cost them $300 million (that seems exaggerated) due to expensive reshoots. I didn’t hear anything about reshoots on that one so who knows…oh well, interesting developments in Hollywood.
I’m really PO’ed about this one, ‘cus it sounded a lot more exciting than another POTC movie, and unlike Green Hornet ’011, wouldn’t suffer from having to be modernized.
Update 10: While nothing is verified, Deadline suggests that Disney might want Verbinski off the project.
Big mistake. Verbinski’s presence is the only thing this movie really had going for it (yeah, yeah, I know, Johnny Depp, big international box office draw).
Honestly, the changes that they’ve made, like shooting scenes with extras all at once, just sound like smart, cost-cutting measures. It’s like Hollywood has never had to be frugal before.