The Lone Ranger

[HighFivingMF]

Didn't Lucas start ILM? I'd imagine he'd be able to get some nifty discounts.

 

[terry78]

Yeah, considering Lucas owns it, they can swing that stuff. The only way Michael Bay was able to shoot all three TF flicks for like 100 mil each is because of the pull he had with the military and with Spielberg.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Werewolves. Jesus Christ.

 

[dark_b]

Yeah, considering Lucas owns it, they can swing that stuff. The only way Michael Bay was able to shoot all three TF flicks for like 100 mil each is because of the pull he had with the military and with Spielberg.

first movie somewhere around 150. second 100% 200. and third over 200.

 

[GunRanger]

TF3's budget is 195 million

 

[Doctor Jones]

Didn't Lucas start ILM? I'd imagine he'd be able to get some nifty discounts.

Yes he did. It's why the SW prequels were all made for a little over $100 million.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Lol, according to him anyway.

Yes, because we would know better than the person himself.

 

[terry78]

first movie somewhere around 150. second 100% 200. and third over 200.

They claimed he got some kind of discount though.

 

[MARVEL ROCKS]

werewolves??! ****ing Jerry Bruckhemier and Gore Verbinski are out of their minds. So is Johnny Depp.

This movie should NOT be more than 100 million.

 

[Paroxysm]

Yes, because we would know better than the person himself.

You seem like the type of person who will believe anything anyone tells you.


"I want to believe!"

 

[C. Lee]

The Lone Ranger with Tonto as the man in the charge while they fight werewolves......I was wondering what next Saturdays SYFY monsterfest movie was going to be......

 

[Gold Samurai]

Disney's Rich Ross Hopes For 'Lone Ranger'; But Is His Gore Verbinski Omission Telling?

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/dis...r-but-is-his-gore-verbinski-omission-telling/

EXCLUSIVE: In an exclusive to Deadline's Pete Hammond during Disney's D23 Expo, Rich Ross made his first comment on The Lone Ranger since I revealed the film had been halted for budgetary reasons. “I’m hoping to do it. I’m certainly hoping. I think it’s a compelling story and no one wants to work with Jerry and Johnny more than me so we’ll see how it works.” The surprise is that Ross mentioned Johnny Depp and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, but not the film's director Gore Verbinski. Would Disney be happier making The Lone Ranger without him?

The rumblings I've heard since my first story on the stoppage are as follows: Verbinski and Bruckheimer have been working hard to tone down or lose some of the budget-busting spectacular scenes in Justin Haythe's script. At the same time, Bruckheimer as well as reps for Depp and Verbinski have been discussing ways to defer big chunks of their upfront paydays. Salary between all three likely accounts for $30 million or more. And if the trio's back end deals weren't at cash break before, they likely will be now if the film moves forward. Because simply adjusting above-the-line salaries isn't enough to bring down what insiders told Deadline 9 days ago was a $75 million budget gap to get to the $200 million Disney wants to spend on the Western. I've heard since that the studio will agree to make The Lone Ranger at $215 million. One major question is whether Verbinski can deliver at that number and retain enough spectacle "wow" factor to give The Lone Ranger a shot at a big overseas gross and sequels.

If Ross's comments indicate that Disney would be open to making The Lone Ranger with another director, that is taking a big risk with Depp. Outside of Tim Burton, no director has made as many movies with Depp as Verbinski, with three Pirates Of The Caribbean films and Rango. Would Depp continue in the movie if Verbinski was moved aside or quit? Good question. The Lone Ranger is a giant risk in the first place because Westerns don't traditionally perform well overseas.

 

[Dark Raven]

If Verbinski has left the project, I hope Depp follows suit very soon. I don't want to see the Lone Werewolf.

 

[Liam_H]

If both Verbinski and Depp are gone I don't see how Disney would move forward at all. Unless they don't mind making a western with reasonable budget hoping for some small profits instead of a big blockbuster.

 

[HighFivingMF]

If Verbinski has left the project, I hope Depp follows suit very soon. I don't want to see the Lone Werewolf.

How does Depp leaving = No werewolf?

 

[Crockett]

The supernatural elements was removed in the recent drafts anyway, well according to THR.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Oh for crying out-

I can't believe I'm the only one who would have loved the werewolves.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Oh for crying out-

I can't believe I'm the only one who would have loved the werewolves.

Nope. I want to see it as described goddamn bad.

 

[MadVillainy]

I like werewolves, but I dont see the need for them in a Lone Ranger movie. But the werewolves were the least of my concerns, the idea of it being the Tonto show is more worrying

 

[C. Lee]

Oh for crying out-

I can't believe I'm the only one who would have loved the werewolves.

A western taking on werewolves is fine by me....but this is a Lone Ranger movie.....werewolves don't belong in it.

 

[Crockett]

I know this isn't what the fans wants and neither those who wants it to be a normal western but I'd say the supernatural elements spics the movie up for me so I was fine with it, it wasn't really the werewolves instead it was the Wendigo and also the cannibalistic Native American spirit capable of possessing humans.

It's hard finding the right balance between Lone Ranger and Tonto and it's even more harder when you have someone like Depp playing Tonto but I thought The Green Hornet had a good balance between Britt and Kato, which I like that it doesn't feel like Kato's a side-kick but that it's more of a partnership between those two.

 

[cherokeesam]

A western taking on werewolves is fine by me....but this is a Lone Ranger movie.....werewolves don't belong in it.

Exactly.

The whole concept is based on taking a "silver bullet" joke to a painfully literal reading, and it offers no authenticity or respect to the source material at all.

This is an entirely different concept for a movie. So *make* it an entirely different movie, and don't try to cash in by slapping a franchise logo that doesn't belong on there.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Maybe they should repackage their script under the title The Silver Bullet and make it about an Indian gunslinger named The Silver Bullet who ends up having to take his name literally when he fights the Wendigo. Look at me, coming up with ideas for an original property quicker and easier than Bruckheimer.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

The Lone Ranger with a werewolf in it is a stupid idea.

Hollywood is obsessed with vampires,zombies and werewolves.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Yeah, that'd be as stupid as something dumb like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien/Meet the Invisible Man/Meet Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde. Oh wait, those were awesome. Nah, I love genre mashups. I'd rather have a film about Indiana Jones versus Dracula and the Wolfman anyway, though.

And no, that's not a joke.