The Lone Ranger

[Dark Raven]

They should just get rid of Johnny Depp as Tonto, and then shift the focus back onto the Lone Ranger. After all, he is meant to be the star of the movie. If they wanted a Tonto movie, they should've called it Tonto: the untold story. Don't call it The Lone Ranger because then audiences will think they're seeing a movie about him.

 

[jmc]

$230 million? WTF? Seriously movie budgets are getting way out of hand nowadays.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Tomorrow we'll hear in Variety about the adaptation of Little House on the Prairie running upwards of 280 million, with WETA doing most of the CG work.

WETA's going to bring in Andy Serkis for a motion cap Michael Landon

 

[Sawyer]

Don't even joke about that.

Though, honestly, I actually wouldn't mind a big screen adaptation of the Little House series.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Why did The Lone Ranger cost so much? Two things. Werewolves and Indian spirituality

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/08/dances_with_wer.php

The reason The Lone Ranger's budget was so astronomically high that Disney execs decided to shut it down was because it's an effects-heavy CG thing due to being a kind of an Indian-spirituality werewolf movie -- a.k.a., The Lone Ranger Meets the Wolfman. Yes, I'm serious. A 3.29.09 draft of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's script makes it clear it was going to be at least partly about some kind of Native American wolfbeast tearing victims apart and leaving a bloody mess.

"It was going to be a Tonto show mainly. Tonto as the top dog and more dominant than the Lone Ranger. Tonto and the Indian spirits like Obi Wan Kenobi and the force. The driving engine was going to be Native American occult aspects worked in with werewolves and special effects. But flavored with doses of Native American spirituality in a serious way.

This reminds me of "Pirates of the Caribbean" with ghosts,mysticism


It's like they don't trust one genre to carry the movie. They have to mix it with another.


Thank goodness "True Grit" didn't have robots

 

[HighFivingMF]

Mother****er! I want to see that!

 

[terry78]

We actually joked about that and it turned out to be truth. Zoinks.

 

[rogue trooper]

Why did The Lone Ranger cost so much? Two things. Werewolves and Indian spirituality

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/08/dances_with_wer.php





This reminds me of "Pirates of the Caribbean" with ghosts,mysticism


It's like they don't trust one genre to carry the movie. They have to mix it with another.


Thank goodness "True Grit" didn't have robots

^^This They should really start all over with a new script. Use the award-winning Lone Ranger series from Dynamite as a base. The two characters in that comic series are very well-layered. Three-dimensional. Both are treated as equals. One is not more important than the other, and vice-versa. Cavendish in these comics had the same range of villainy like a western Lex Luthor.

I don't know why Hollywood has to complicate things more than they should be.

 

[MadVillainy]

I love werewolves. BUt idk sounds weird for this. That coupled with the fact that it was the Tonto show, but then again Tonto was Johnny Depp

 

[Gold Samurai]

I can't help but think we're one step away from a sequel involving zombies or vampires of the west

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

It sucks that this project is postponed.

However, 250 million is a bit excessive for a Western movie. So I hope they trim down the budget fast and get this project back on-track.

 

[MadVillainy]

I just really hope they go to the beginning and write a Lone Ranger story, not Tonto: The Movie (and Lone Ranger is there too). And I hope they get rid of Depp too. I love him as an actor but as long as he's attached as Tonto, I think Tonto will always be the focus.

 

[terry78]

It's not really his fault, but he just overshadows anyone else in a project. It's a good place to be, but you can't really do any lowkey stuff. Alice in Wonderland was basically Mad Hatter in Wonderland. A lot of people don't even know the name of the actress.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

It's not really his fault, but he just overshadows anyone else in a project. It's a good place to be, but you can't really do any lowkey stuff. Alice in Wonderland was basically Mad Hatter in Wonderland. A lot of people don't even know the name of the actress.

EXACTLY! That and her last name is almost as hard to pronounce as the name of the dude who played Mr. Eko on "LOST". Besides, the fact that Depp was in it doesn't mean the movie sucked (at least, not to me).

But anyway, back to the whole werewolf thing, that sounds like a HORRIBLE idea! Have these writers even SEEN anything featuring the Lone Ranger in it? It's not a property that's like Jonah Hex or POTC where it's plausible for there to be supernatural aspects like that in there! If they wanted to do something like that, then they're better off helping out with a Jonah Hex reboot or something that's more appropriate!

 

[Homer J. Fong]

^That's not because of Depp, that's because she's really new and her name is Mia Wasikowska.

I'm glad that this movie's been canceled - or postponed, whichever. First, because a $250m pricetag is insane for a movie like this. I actually like Gore Verbinski's Pirates sequels, bloated silliness and all, but he can't bring that to this film. Second, because...well, it's getting harder to defend Johnny Depp. I love the guy, and I've honestly never disliked a Depp performance, but when his pet project right now is an update of a '60s vampire soap opera, Dark Shadows, when he's probably going to do a fifth Pirates movie, when Jack Sparrow has become such a Disney product icon, when he was going to play Tonto in a $250m Lone Ranger movie..the term "sellout" does come to mind.

 

[MadVillainy]

It's not really his fault, but he just overshadows anyone else in a project. It's a good place to be, but you can't really do any lowkey stuff. Alice in Wonderland was basically Mad Hatter in Wonderland. A lot of people don't even know the name of the actress.

Yeah I know it's not his fault, but still Id rather not have him in the project if he'll take away from The Lone Ranger

 

[Liam_H]

Unless the budget gets trimmed by a lot and I mean down to at least below $100 million, Disney won't move forward without Depp. This is an unproven genre outside of the states, True Grit was a big hit here but okay overseas. So to get people to come see this they're have Depp play some wacky character again, the marketing is gonna focused on him.

 

[Sawyer]

^That's not because of Depp, that's because she's really new and her name is Mia Wasikowska.

I'm glad that this movie's been canceled - or postponed, whichever. First, because a $250m pricetag is insane for a movie like this. I actually like Gore Verbinski's Pirates sequels, bloated silliness and all, but he can't bring that to this film. Second, because...well, it's getting harder to defend Johnny Depp. I love the guy, and I've honestly never disliked a Depp performance, but when his pet project right now is an update of a '60s vampire soap opera, Dark Shadows, when he's probably going to do a fifth Pirates movie, when Jack Sparrow has become such a Disney product icon, when he was going to play Tonto in a $250m Lone Ranger movie..the term "sellout" does come to mind.

I don't really see how Dark Shadows figures into his being a "sellout", but okay.

 

[Spidey Rules 2]

They should just get rid of Johnny Depp as Tonto, and then shift the focus back onto the Lone Ranger. After all, he is meant to be the star of the movie. If they wanted a Tonto movie, they should've called it Tonto: the untold story. Don't call it The Lone Ranger because then audiences will think they're seeing a movie about him.

That reminds me when I took my boys to go see CARS 2, we thought we'd be seeing a lot of Lightning McQueen ... not his sidekick Mater.

 

[cronosred]

Why did The Lone Ranger cost so much? Two things. Werewolves and Indian spirituality

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/08/dances_with_wer.php





This reminds me of "Pirates of the Caribbean" with ghosts,mysticism


It's like they don't trust one genre to carry the movie. They have to mix it with another.


Thank goodness "True Grit" didn't have robots

Why are they even calling it The Lone Ranger when it's clear that's not the movie they want to make? If they want to go with that idea why not just make an original movie with original characters?

 

[Eddie Dean]

I don't know why a Western can't just be a Western. Why does it always have to be some sort of a genre crossover?

 

[Symbiotic]

Why are they even calling it The Lone Ranger when it's clear that's not the movie they want to make? If they want to go with that idea why not just make an original movie with original characters?

They need, maybe not the characters, but the title to be a property.

 

[Gold Samurai]

I don't know why a Western can't just be a Western. Why does it always have to be some sort of a genre crossover?

Perhaps the thinking is a western movie on it's own won't
Be successful.

True Grit was a fluke

To make a genre like this work you need a good chemisty between lead actors and one or two explosions(sadly)

It's sort of like how "sherlock Holmes" being handled

 

[Doctor Jones]

But Sherlock Holmes is pretty faithful to the books. The action is more extensive, but all of the traits of Holmes are from the books.

 

[Project862006]

how about we get a tonto who is actually indian not some so and so % indian it is like keanu being portrayed as a samurai yeah he has asian blood in him but it is not the same