But I was like, 'I wish you well.' I love those guys. Rossio and Elliot pitched me a version that I didn't really respond to. "So Jerry got the rights, and then what happened? I disengaged. Johnny is interested at that point."īut Verbinski says at that point, he left the project, and development continued without him - which is where those werewolves come in: He said, 'I like that idea.' I think Jerry thought Johnny was saying he wanted to play the Lone Ranger or something. I go to talk to Johnny about it on his boat. I was like, 'Lone Ranger, Johnny, Tonto.' My mind immediately went, tell the Tonto story, because the Lone Ranger story has been told so many times. I said, immediately, 'Johnny should play Tonto.' I just blurted it out. So we were making Pirates 2, and Jerry said Terry Rossio and Ted wanted Jerry to buy the rights to The Lone Ranger. "Let me see if I can recall this correctly. Image via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Verbinski broke down some of the process while stressing that the werewolf thing was definitely not his idea: The director shared some details about the film’s long development history at Disney, beginning as an idle conversation between Verbinski and Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer and ending up in the hands of Pirates scribes Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott. Recently, Verbinski spoke with Collider’s Steve Weintraub in an in-depth interview about his impressive career, The Lone Ranger included. There’s also a long-standing rumor surrounding the film that has since become something of Hollywood legend, which suggests that an early draft of the script had the Lone Ranger and Tonto encounter actual werewolves. Despite excellent production design and some thrilling action sequences, The Lone Ranger’s inconsistent tone (plus an out-of-control budget and a badly miscast Depp) led to a lukewarm reception that resulted in a box office failure, and the movie quickly became another cautionary tale about blockbuster filmmaking. A slick reimagining of the classic Western hero, the film re-teamed Disney with Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski after the runaway success of Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, another surprise hit in a similarly forgotten genre. The Lone Ranger is a film of many distinctions unfortunately, most of them aren't particularly good.
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