The Lone Ranger Reviews, Interviews & More

Well, here’s the fourth trailer for Disney’s The Lone Ranger, the mega-budget film (estimated at $250 million) that cost just about as much as Disney’s John Carter film did last year, and has had nearly as many behind-the-scenes snags and production issues (it’s almost as if the universe is trying to prevent these movies from being made, and the Mickey Mouse...

It’s time for yet another trailer/ attempt for Walt Disney Pictures to try and convince the moviegoing populace that watching The Lone Ranger will be a good idea.  And with this newest trailer, it once again just seems like yet another big, bloated and loud $200 million studio project.  Even further, it seems exactly like another Johnny Depp franchise, but with cowboy hats.

The Lone Ranger comes out this summer, and it's already being targeted as one of 2013's misfires. For whatever ever reason (perhaps critics wanting to take shots at Johnny Depp for the last Pirates movie and for Dark Shadows, but also its inflated budget was made public before the film was shot), it's already getting...

Well the Super Bowl happened on Sunday night, meaning that it was time for our yearly dose of mega soda, potato chip, and film commercials.  One of the biggest trailers of the evening was the clip for The Lone Ranger, a film that seems worse and worse with every new glimpse of footage that we get.  Check out the trailer below.

If there’s one thing to be gleaned from the new The Lone Ranger trailer—aside from some awkward racial stereotyping—it’s that if you’ve enjoyed the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, you’re going to love The Lone Ranger.  Made by the team behind the first three Pirates films (director Gore...

It's hard not to collectively groan when you read a title like that. It's not that we're groaning over the fact that Johnny Depp has another big acting job to do, but it's just that he continues to lean more towards the odd, quirky kind of characters very similar to Captain Jack Sparrow that made him into an international superstar. While some may argue that he's drying up the well when it...

While Armie Hammer, who first came to mainstream attention by playing the Winklevoss twins (or Winklevii, if you like) in David Fincher’s The Social Network, is already set to play an American icon as the titular character in the upcoming The Lone Ranger, he was set to play another famous hero.  Before director George Miller (the Mad...

Yesterday we saw the teaser poster, but today we’ve got the full teaser trailer.  That’s right—our first full look at Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer.   And after all the running over budget, the stories of an runaway train of a production, what do we get?  Basically, what we expected: a very slick and polished bit of mainstream...

It’s been a long road for Gore Verbinski’s  Johnny Depp / Armie Hammer-starring update of The Lone Ranger.  Horror stories of an out of control production, control freak director, and massive budget overruns have seemingly made the film appear to be the prototypical mainstream Hollywood bloatfest.  However, recent pictures from the film have begun to generate buzz, and...

Johnny Depp has become something of a Hollywood bad omen of late—first, Dark Shadows tanked in the wake of The Avengers, and not even the man behind Jack Sparrow could save it.  Then, more news from the increasingly trouble Lone Ranger production broke, with stories of an out of control budget and an overly controlling director.  Now, The Thin...

Proving that Hollywood has not exactly learned its lesson about not pumping more and more mega-millions into already bloated budgets and out of control productions (cough, John Carter, cough cough World War Z), it was leaked today that Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger has gone massively over budget (a budget which itself was slashed months ago).  Now, the Lone...

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.

When pictures first emerged of Johnny Depp on the set of The Lone Ranger as the titular heroe's longtime sidekick, Tonto, the general internet reaction was, "why the hell is Marilyn Manson in a western…and more importantly, why is a bird sitting on his head?"  Well, the eccentric actor has now spoken out, explaining the meaning of his mysterious Tonto...

After all the production difficulties and delays, it's still a surprise to know that Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger is actually shooting. But now there's evidence that it's going forward, and it comes in a picture taken on set with Johnny Depp in his costume for the film. He's playing Tonto, and they're in the midst of filming.

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...

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...

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.

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...

The Wrap is reporting that Ryan Gosling is in the room for the Gore Verbinski/Johnny Depp version of The Lone Ranger. Depp would play Tonto to Gosling's white knight of a cowboy. At the same time they are noting that Gosling's schedule as of now is in conflict with doing the picture. Which makes the likelihood of him doing it all the more questionable.

Over the year, we can expect to see Johnny Depp in two highly anticipated films, Rango and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, but there's more where that came from. Depp will also appear in Disney's big screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger, which they're simply calling Lone Ranger, as Tonto. The...