The breaks have been put on this project a few times due to budgetary concerns, but we finally get a glimpse of Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinkski’s troubled The Lone Ranger, starring Armie Hammer as The Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp as his faithful partner Tonto.
I’ve always been a huge fan of The Lone Ranger. I have vivid memories of going to see The Legend of the Lone Ranger at the theater when I was 4 years old and though now I see how… problematic it is, I loved the crap out of it as a kid. When my family came to visit Los Angeles when I was 10 years old the only star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame that I took a photograph of was Clayton Moore’s. These days, I check out any Lone Ranger projects that come down the pipe and I’m always excited and hopeful.
I am excited and hopeful for this film. (And… okay, slightly apprehensive.)
Meanwhile, The Lone Ranger #10 is in stores today.
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“…glimpse of Jerry Bruckheimer…”
Aaaand they lost me.
The way I see it is if Gore Verbinski made the Ring a box office smash hit, The Lone Ranger can’t be all bad. I’m looking forward to it.
I loved the first “Pirates” and “Rango” and am sure that Depp and Verbinksi have enough talent between them to pull this off but…it’s so racist. Not just “problematic.” Johnny Depp is playing the quintessential melodramatic “Stage Injun.” And I understand all of the justifications for resurrecting this franchise and that Johnny Depp is trying to make Tonto more of a bad-ass or noble or whatever but it’s just a film that doesn’t need to exist and a franchise that is best left to nostalgic old white people, along with Amos and Andy, Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu.
“Problematic” refers to the quality of that 1981 film, not any inherent racism in the concept.
If you’re to Depp’s broken English as Tonto, then consider that at the time most Natives spoke in such a way. English was not their language and among the many tribes there was not one universal tongue. Depp is being true to the Native. Besides, he has recently become an official member of a certain tribe (the name escapes me) specifically to be accepted in this role by a people.
Comanche. I just looked it up. And he seems like he’s doing some good for them too (just made a surprise appearance at a local fair). I stand corrected, good sirs.
Somewhere Adam Beach is fuming and texting a friend “He’s a white guy! A WHITE GUY!”
Looks like it could work. I’m a sucker for just about any kind of Western, though.
Not for me
Depp is pretty much amazing in anything he does now, so I’ll buy it. “Lone Ranger” doesn’t make much sense though – he’s not a “lone” anything if he’s got a sidekick.
The name derives from his being a Texas Ranger out there working in secret and alone from the other Texas Rangers.
I don’t know much about the Lone Ranger, but I know the Texas Rangers did not work as lone spys/assassins.
I thought it referred to all the other Texas Rangers being gone or killed?
@ScorpionMasada: The other Rangers he was riding with are killed, and he is thought to be among them, so he dons a mask and rides the West as The Lone Ranger, anonymously seeking justice and vengeance.
I thought it was “ranger” and in “one who ranges” – in which case, again, not alone.
Here’s a youtube link, if, like me, you stubbornly refuse to install Quicktime…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0PUiPexVQ&hd=1
Not sure it’s the same trailer though (but it was posted today as well).
It’s the same.
Does this mean you’ll be reviewing this movie when it comes out next year?
Maybe.
Will crash like a Martian sky ship.
Armie Hammer? Really?
That’s some cruel (or clueless) parents, right there.
His real first name is Armand which is funny because that makes it Arm and Hammer which is doubly funny because his grandfather sat on the board of Church & Dwight which owned the company Arm & Hammer, but was NOT named after him.
How did this get Tim Burton’s cast without Tim? Is Tim not involved? Somebody call Tim.
I saw the stuff about Depp and the Comanche tribe but
Is the character, Tonto, a Comanche?
All I’m going to be able to focus on while watching this is the bird on Tonto’s head.
I’m very nervous about the movie. I’ve loved the Lone Ranger since I was little. Dynamite’s recent 25 issue Lone Ranger series from Brett Matthews was the bomb diggity as well. I haven’t warmed up to the new Ande Parks stuff yet.
Regardless, I read early on that Depp intended to make Tonto the “star” with a stumbling, bumbling Ranger at his side. I have no reason to dislike a BA Tonto, but I hope the film is more of an equal partnership than a hero/sidekick thing.
It’ll be nice to see more attention given to the Lone Ranger franchise either way.
Johnny depp is white unless,im wrong. him playing tonto kinda offensive
Why is it offensive? He is an actor playing a role. Christopher Reeve wasn’t actually Kryptonian. We’re you offended he played Superman?
there are a ton of talented native American actors. you can’t be serious with your krypton statement.
i have the same problem when i watch scarface and its a ton of caucasian doing a bad hispanic stereotype acting
If there were a bunch of underemployed chronically marginalized and poverty-stricken Kryptonians hanging around, I would totally be offended that none of them were hired to play Superman.
Whoa whoa whoa, hold on! Kryptonians aren’t white?!
After “Rango” I’m very excited to see what Verbinkski does with a live action western.
On behalf of Pandas everywhere, I find Jack Black very offensive.
By the look of this trailer it should be called TONTO and the lone ranger