While most of the focus on Gore Verbinski’s upcoming full-length adaptation of The Lone Ranger has focused on Johnny Depp’s pasty-faced and eccentric take on the sidekick character of Tonto, news broke this week that another pale, oddball artist will be bringing his weirdness to The Lone Ranger—former White Stripes frontman Jack White.
Curious as to how Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer look in the upcoming cinematic adaptation of The Lone Ranger? Well, you’re in luck, as producer Jerry Bruckheimer, taking a break from producing his dazzlingly horrible roster of films, tweeted an image featuring Hammer as the Lone Ranger and Depp as his Native American sidekick, Tonto. Check out the image below!
For a while there The Lone Ranger looked DOA, but today it’s actually in production. In fact, it’s shooting right now. Though the film reunited the Pirates of the Caribbean creative team of Johnny Depp, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, (now Academy Award winning) director Gore Verbinski and writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio with Disney, it looked to be too expensive for their tastes, and they passed. But budgets were shuffled and now they’re going forward for a May 31, 2013 release.
Oh dear. We’re going to be getting two competing Snow White pictures in 2012, in the summer there’s one starring Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron with a more grungy and battle-worn approach, but first there’s going to be Mirror Mirror in March. It’s fair to say both are going for completely different takes on the material – for the trailer for the Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Lily Collins film it seems they went a bit campy. Check it out…
Clint Eastwood has been working so hard and so much, it’s easy to be bowled over that an 81-year-old has churned out nearly a film a year for over two decades (generally if he takes a year off it’s because he directed two the year previous). For his latest he’s assembled Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, and Armie Hammer for a portrait of one of the most important and powerful men of the 20th Century: J. Edgar Hoover, who developed the Federal Bureau of Investigations into the complicated and powerful organization it is now. But J. Edgar is sadly undercooked, with all the juicy tales of Hoover and none congealing.
Last we reported, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp‘s take on The Lone Ranger was put out to pasture because of concerns of a huge budget. Now Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the film has finally got a contained budget and is going to try to start shooting in 2012, with an official announcement due next week.
Leonardo DiCaprio. Clint Eastwood. J. Edgar. Is it Oscar time already? That’s the vibe coming off of Eastwood’s latest, which just had its trailer release. It fits a lot of bio-pic formulas, with Judi Dench playing his mother, and Armie Hammer playing his possible lover. Once revered as a feared lawman, now seen as corrupt as some of the people he went after, J. Edgar Hoover’s life is juicy subject matter, but it’s unknown how it’s been cooked. Check out the trailer…
Gore Verbinski. Johnny Depp. Armie Hammer. The writers of the original Pirates of the Caribbean. Jerry Bruckheimer. Depp as Tonto. How could The Lone Ranger go astray? And yet the Walt Disney company has decided to pass on this title, citing a budget that was guestimated at $230 Million. Those numbers sound astronomical, but in context, Warner Brothers spent a supposed $200 on The Green Lantern. What could make a western so expensive? Werewolves, according to Jeff Wells. The film was going to be a special effects bonanza.
Over the course of Hollywood history, we’ve seen a number of competing, similarly themed projects, be it about disaster, asteroids, or going to mars. Right now there are at two competing Snow White projects in the work (thank the billion dollars made by Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland). Viggo Mortensen was in talks to play the Huntsman for the version called Snow White and the Huntsman, but he’s dropped out, while Armie Hammer has now signed on for The Brothers Grimm: Snow White.
