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Confirmed: Gore Verbinski To Direct Johnny Depp In Jerry Bruckheimer's THE LONE RANGER!
Beaks here...
When Disney announced Jerry Bruckheimer's THE LONE RANGER with a literal fanfare in the fall of 2008, it was known that Johnny Depp would star as Tonto and assumed that PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN's Gore Verbinski would direct. Two years later, it's been confirmed by Deadline's Michael Fleming and Nikki Finke that Gore Verbinski will direct Johnny Depp in Jerry Bruckheimer's THE LONE RANGER. Bam.
What took 'em so long? Well, Verbinski's been off making a very interesting-looking animated film called RANGO, while Depp's kept busy by starring in four movies (ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THE TOURIST, THE RUM DIARY and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES) and voicing the character of Rango for his moviemakin' buddy Verbinski. Hopefully, Bruckheimer took advantage of this delay by concocting a story worth telling - one that doesn't simply settle for the "unconventional" notion of Tonto as the real hero of the tale (a dynamic that's already been explored in Michel Gondry's forthcoming update of Trendle and Striker's THE GREEN HORNET).
Justin Haythe (THE CLEARING and the horribly botched adaptation of REVOLUTIONARY ROAD) was brought on earlier this year to write the screenplay. As for potential Lone Rangers, your speculation is as informed as mine. Go nuts.
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...but ultimately crap. Gore=Bore=Shit. No, it doesn't rhyme. Yes, it's true.
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How about some more original works?
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it'll be like smokey and the bandit 3 and shit
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Make it happen!!!
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...get enormous press for the casting of a sidekick, months and months before the star of the show has even begun getting cast?<P>Johnny Depp is the fucking man, and then some.
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This will suck.
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Frankly, anybody EXCEPT GODDAMNED SAM WORTHINGTON! SERIOUSLY, DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING DO IT, DO YOU HEAR ME?!
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I agree with you, that script was terrible and took a great novel and ruined. Todd Field should've made it. This has nothing to do with Lone Ranger but I agree with your assertion on Justin Haythe's screenplay.
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The hammer is his penis.
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Downey and Depp together = CLASSIC
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Nov. 23, 2010, 4:16 p.m. CST
Look for lots of stupid and over the top stunts and special effe
by Artemis Webb
Clayton Moore where are you?
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oh well, who cares about pissing off the indians
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Nov. 23, 2010, 4:19 p.m. CST
I can see it now: a duel betwee Gore Verbinski and Tim Burton-
by Kamaji
-for the hand of Johnny Depp. :P
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...being a Disney - Bruckheimer joint, you can throw sanity out the window. That being said, it will probably be Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Will Farrel, Michael Cera, or a random comedian-of-the-month to play silly to Depp's straight-laced Tonto.
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With The Green Hornet?
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This is great news. I'm a Lone Ranger fan who got up at 6AM as a kid to watch the show every morning before elementary school and had the 12 inch dolls--er, action fgures from the 70s. I think it's time for George Clooney to remind everyone he's our greatest movie star as well as a great actor and director. Before somebody screams, "He's too old!." allow me to retort. Bullshit. He has let his hair grey naturally in order to be taken more seriously as a film-maker and to seperate himself from his Sexiest Man Alive days, but he could easily get back into movie star mode to play the greatest American Western hero.
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Shaquille O'Neal as KAZAAM! the rapping genie as The Lone Ranger
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Nov. 23, 2010, 4:24 p.m. CST
Will they take out the trash at some point in the movie?
by StanGrossman
Because if they do they can go "To The Dump, To The Dump, To The Dump Dump Dump"
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Man, you are one pathetic loser. No offense.
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...where's the obit for Ingrid Pitt?
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Nov. 23, 2010, 4:32 p.m. CST
DADDA-DUN... DADDA-DUN... DADDA-DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN.
by Triple_J_72
I had to do it... sorry. :-)
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Bioshock please.
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The audiences for westerns just isn't there anymore, so I can't see this one being a blockbuster <p> (I suppose that one could say that about the Pirate movie genre too, but still...)
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thus - they should make him a VAMPIRE!
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Why can't a native guy play a native character? I thought the days of blackface were behind us.
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Jon Hamm. Could handle the comedy and looks the part of the hero.
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and cast an unknown as The Lone Ranger. There's no way that film would bomb...
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...watch it on youtube.
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that was their fighting style. Check out 'Apache vs. Gladiator' on 'Deadliest Warrior'. Does Depp have the physical skills to play a seasoned Apache warrior? I'm wondering....
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Every Ranger slaughtered but him? It can have a wry line or tow, like "Batman Begins" w/ "Does it come in black," but other than that, no yuks, please.
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some skills as a ranger, at least with a gun. Tonto could teach him stealth and more.
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movie but have no interest in it if all it is going to some sort of comedy. Johnny Depp is the actor of my generation, but I think it's disrespectful to the property to treat it as has been reported.
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ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ fuck he's boring
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tell me about the Wone Wanger...again....
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as the fucking horse.
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Great, I have your attention.<P>I'm just trying to find my way home; could someone point me in the direction of the peddleback?
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Create an iconoclastic hero a charismatic villain and give their world both historic and fantasy elements. I like Gore Verbinski. I liked all the PotC films. <P> I have a feeling they will want to go young with the Ranger however, to widen appeal to the 18-34 demo. I like Clooney, but I'd bet they cast someone like Riggins from Friday Night Lights or Aaron Johnson.
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Wait, this shit was in black and white. Was I even born yet?
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That'd be cool.
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Dark Shadows. Sick of these ridiculously huge craptacular blockbusters.
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I've been playing Lone Ranger episodes for my kids over the last couple of weeks, and they LOVE it!<P> I had never seen the origin episode, and the way those Rangers were slaughtered helps you understand why he became the Lone Ranger. Tonto saved his life and nursed him back to health. Not only was Tonto's and the Lone Ranger's relationship a true partnership, but so was the relationship between the Lone Ranger and Silver. Oh, and Dredd-style, he NEVER shows his face! It's a great story, and Hollywood probably can't help but fuck it up.<P> Those episodes are on IMDB, btw.
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Nov. 23, 2010, 5:25 p.m. CST
Didn't we just hear about The Thin Man and Dark Shadows as well?
by elsachmo
I wonder how many of these will actually get made?
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But honestly this is some fucked up casting. Rudy "Jaguar Paw" Youngblood should be Tonto, with Depp as LR.
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Nov. 23, 2010, 5:29 p.m. CST
Thomas Jane would make a good Lone Ranger too,
by The Reluctant Austinite
but I like the possibility of the Clooney/Depp chemistry.
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Try to treat this like "The Lone Ranger Begins" and I might be interested. Yeah, I know he seems corny to modern eyes but imagine if there was no O'Neal/Adams, Miller, Burton and Nolan Batman, we'd only be able to imagine him as being like the campy Adam West version. Well just pretend LR has been going through a similar evolution through the years. I'm not saying make him like the Punisher, but if you ever listened to the old radio shows of the Lone Ranger it was a little dark at times.
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Everyone in here, lets have a round of applause for these two. Thanks for proving that people can still be wastes of space and air. You rancid smelling excuses for human beings. When we we stand agains this type of vitriol as if the subjects the lambast are undeserving of kindness of just common courtesy. Seriously folks lets look at what some write in here about others protected by their anonymity. Why did this ever become acceptable? AND don't go claiming "it's a joke" "get a sense of humor" I'm all for ranking on my buds, throwing them under the bus, IN their presence. There is a hatred in a lot of TBer's It's distasteful. And If I were your unlucky father I'd rain holy hell down upon your black hearts. OK then, carry on.
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I should have proof read
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My incredibly immature mind finds that very amusing. <P>" 'A guy walks into a bar...' rammed his engorged manhood deep into 'How can you tell when a blond...'<P>Nine months later, Dane Cook is born.
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i stopped reading just there.
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And if you don't know the connection you should hand in your geek passport.
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No one else gets cast for anything but those guys.
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...Coming soon from your favorite creatively-bankrupt movie studio!! Jerry ButtMiner...what a piece of work...
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Unfortunately, I think the 2 properties are owned by different companies now so they tend to ignore that aspect of the Green Hornet/Lone Ranger.
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Now, it'll be interesting to see if Cowboys Vs Aliens can do well. I personally love westerns and I wish someone could reinvent the western and make them great again. And I think Brad Pitt will end up playing The Lone Ranger.
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like WW2 or Vietnam movies and so on.as time passes,the general taste of the mainstream audience changes,and with that the appeal and popularity of specific movie genres.<br /> <p>ofc Westerns eventually will come back,after all life is a circle,but they wont be in their familiar form.ie the mixture of Western and Scifi in the Cowboys and Aliens flick is a good way of how you can make the Western attractive again to a young generation whose interest in limited only to the Transformers and Twilight movies.<br /> <p>hell i wouldnt be surprised if in the future,a western with vampires comes out in the future and becomes a big hit.
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as an older (but wiser) Tonto. <P> Awesome.
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OMG YEAH SO COOL!
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Not Jon Hamm. Not Downey or Bale. Matthew Fox is interesting. Viggo Mortensen, Sam Rockwell, Hugh Laurie or James Franco. If they cast Shia LePoof, Clayton Moore will come back from the dead and kick all of their asses.
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Already been done, of course:<P>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060168/
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There hasnt been as man westerns as there was like in the 50, 60's etc.. but there's been a few in the past 30 years that has been hits namely Tombstone and Unforgiven. I think that True Grit will be a hit too.
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There are so many Native American actors begging for work. There are some name actors that would work well in the role--Adam Beach comes to mind. To have Depp in this role is insulting. Sorry, dude, being 1/32 Cherokee or whatever does not qualify you to play the full blood Tonto. Maybe if this was 1939 again...This whole idea of him starring in The Lone Ranger really irks me. Now, if he were playing the weird, blind guy behind the saloon, or something that would be fine. But this casting is as insulting as John Voight as a Native American in U Turn.
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Cool shit, probably will either be mentioned, made fun of or goes over the average weed smoker's head who's going to sit through this.... who took my lighter?
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Bond's Gotta eat!
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He was one of several Texas Rangers who was killed in an ambush. He was nursed back to health by Tonto. Being the lone survivor, he called himself the Lone Ranger.
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the Lone Ranger or it won't work. It would be lame to have Tonto get top billing or it'll be Alice in Wonderland all over again with the Mad Hatter being the star of the show
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iO9 is reporting kids are trying out for the role of Billy Connors... You know what that means, right?? OH yeah!
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Nov. 23, 2010, 7:31 p.m. CST
Cast the Native American actor who's bigger than Johnny Depp
by Nerd Rage
oh...wait.
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Hey it was successful enough to spawn a sequel. I will also say one of the reasons (among a few) is that well it wasn't very good. The only part I truly liked is when he actually becomes the Ranger and the famous music starts playing and him and Tonto go off riding.
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He was the lone survivor of a group of Texas Rangers that were massacred.
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He has the old-school hero vibe, and since they're going younger for Superman, makes sense to get him a tentpole. He'll be relatively cheap compared to Depp's salary. You know this to be true.
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...at least now in the new movie universe, since the new Green Hornet movie is set in modern day, which leaves a 100+ year gap between him and the Lone Ranger. The ranger would be more like his great great great uncle.
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The dumb fucker. Head over to Dark Horizons. (A movie NEWS site.) Zack Snyder wants to cast "skinny" British guy Matthew Goode. Actually if you Google Image the guy he's got a good Clark look and, beefed up, could pull of Supes. But Snyder wants him so he can pull off the weedy Clark persona, and isn't too fussed about his Superman bulk because, and I quote: "Snyder isn't concerned about that as he plans to render Superman's muscular body with CG animation, much like the way Ryan Reynolds' outfit is rendered in next year's "Green Lantern". Way to miss the fucking point Snyder. Superman doesn't GROW MUSCLES when he puts the suit on, for Christ's sake. Surely Nolan won't stand for THAT shit. P.S. It should be Routh. But this guy could well look the part actually. But fuck off Snyder. CGI Superman my ass.
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You beat me to it..didn't see your post until now.
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Casting a white guy as Tonto seems a little weird to me. There are a few good Native American actors out there. Adam Beach comes to mind.
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Jay Silverheels who played Tonto in the 50s tv show, was such a strong role model for a lot of kids. Anyone who is interested, google the Lone Ranger's creed. This is a character with a rich and full background. Done right, this could be huge.
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Seriously
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That's awesome. who's gonna play tonto??? And CGI superman well, is my recollection serves me right, christopher reeve wasnt all that muscluar. The guy should just tone up, not bulk up. I'll take a bruce lee like superman over the CGI muscles anyday.
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His great, great, great grand pappy may have been native, but that don't change the fact that he looks 100% of European descent. Not even all the spray tan in the world and Depp's acting chops could convince me as Tonto. It's about as convincing as John Wayne playing Genghis Khan. What's next Justin Bieber playing Shaft??
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Nolan thinks the bat-suit looks like a football uniform.<P>And don't call me Shirley.
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people will quit picking on Brandon Routh.
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He'd be so fucking badass in this.
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not sure how this will play out, might wind up going in Sonnenfeld's Wild Wild West's direction, which was--less than impressive.
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...plus we've never had him appear in a film with Depp before. Weird, given that they're both pretty-boy actors who aspire to quirky character roles.
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Read subject line.
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Does this mean were going to get a tepid Keith Moon or David Bowie impersonation as Tonto.
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He has the western experience, and can be both dark and funny. Not that I want the Lone Ranger to be funny, because I DON'T! But you know it will be. Dark movies won't bring in the kiddies.
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... i hope it fucking bombs miserably at the box office. No disrespect for Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski, i hope they have all stellar careers for the rest of their lives, but this guys should chose better, they should know better. Bomb, fucker, bomb!
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And I'm sorry, but Depp - NOT a Lone Ranger candidate. Sorry. Yikes.
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then re-name the film the 'Bone Ranger' and make it a porno..
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as long as he doesn't come off as some racial stereotype. I think a good idea would be to follow Graham Greene's lead with what he did on Maverick. In Maverick, Greene's character spoke flawless English except when he was interacting with "clients" who expect the more stereotypical Indian who talks like Mr. Miyagi. It doesn't have to be exactly like that but I just have a hard time seeing how Depp will be able to say lines like "Him say man ride over ridge on horse." without having moviegoers cringe.
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You want a fop or a dandy, he's your "man". But a serious, competent human male? Even his Dillinger was kind of a weirdo.
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Tell him to play it straight like he's in a Coen Brothers comedy, and away we go.
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Filmed entirely on location. That's all I want in a western. And hire Lawrence Kasdan to write the screenplay.
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Chicks love him. That is all.
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If the story is "the sidekick is the real hero", Aaron Eckhart. If it's "the original buddy cop film" go for Clooney.
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Even your reply is weak. You attack my screen name (Geektard_Smasher hmmmm right?) I'm in Seattle but travel all over the country. Let's drop the anonymity give me your email and we'll discuss this face to face like adults. Your reliance on juvenile expressions like "fudge pack" indicates either an intolerance towards homosexuals or you are a self hating homosexual. But no one can honestly find you entertaining and you probably are just lonely.
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... then cast Pattinson as the Lone Ranger. You'll make a killing!
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...see that THE THING ain't opening until October of next year...in other news...
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As Tonto. Because they know most people are fine with a member of THEIR group stealing a role from another group...even if those same people will squeal like piggies if an outsider takes one of "their" roles. Meaning: most white people don't care, like they didn't care when Joel Gray played a Korean.
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Nov. 24, 2010, 5:37 p.m. CST
Depp will guarantee butts in the seats some unknown indian dude
by mojoman69
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I'm serious dude. He'll be Johnny Utah in a cowboy hat.
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