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The film will be remastered and released in [[IMAX]] theaters on August 2, in several international territories including the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Vlessing|first=Etan|title=Disney’s ‘Lone Ranger’ to Ride Into Imax Theaters Overseas on August 2|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-s-lone-ranger-ride-567504|accessdate=13 June 2013|newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|date=12 June 2013}}</ref>
The film will be remastered and released in [[IMAX]] theaters on August 2, in several international territories including the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Vlessing|first=Etan|title=Disney’s ‘Lone Ranger’ to Ride Into Imax Theaters Overseas on August 2|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-s-lone-ranger-ride-567504|accessdate=13 June 2013|newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|date=12 June 2013}}</ref>

On its opening day, the film took in $15 million (July 3, 2013), which puts it under Disney's expectations.<ref>http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/despicable-me-2-opens-with-huge-4-7m-late-shows/</ref>


==Reception==
==Reception==

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The Lone Ranger
North American release poster
Directed byGore Verbinski
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Ted Elliott
  • Terry Rossio
  • Justin Haythe
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBojan Bazelli
Edited by
Music byHans Zimmer
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • June 22, 2013 (2013-06-22) (Hyperion Theatre)
  • July 3, 2013 (2013-07-03) (United States)
Running time
149 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$215–250 million[2][3]

The Lone Ranger is a 2013 American action-adventure western film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and directed by Gore Verbinski, based on the radio series of the same name. The film stars Armie Hammer in the title role and Johnny Depp as Tonto. The film marks the first theatrical film featuring the Lone Ranger character in over 32 years.[4] It was released theatrically on July 3, 2013.

Plot

The film starts in 1933 San Francisco, where a young boy named Will is attending a Wild West exhibition, featuring a static figure of an archetypal Native American. The figure seemingly comes to life and reveals himself to be Tonto, an aged Comanche spirit warrior, who proceeds to recount his experiences with lawyer John Reid. Shifting back 64 years to 1869, Reid is returning home aboard a rail train, managed by railroad tycoon Latham Cole, en route to Colby, Texas to visit his older brother and Texas Ranger, Dan Reid. Unbeknownst to John, the train is also carrying an apprehended Tonto and outlaw Butch Cavendish. Cavendish's gang hijacks the train, which shortly derails soon after, which results in Butch escaping and Tonto' arrest by John and Dan. The elder Reid recruits John as a Texas Ranger and the two are enlisted to negotiate with the Comanche tribe alongside a group of five other Rangers. A few days into their expedition, the group is ambushed in a canyon by Cavendish's men who kill the men, including Dan, who has his heart cut out by Butch himself. John is injured in the attack and passes out, only to be found by Tonto days later.

Cast

Production

Development

In January 2007, The Weinstein Company and its home-video division Genius Products planned to partner with the UK-based Entertainment Rights on a deal for home-video, digital and video-game distribution of properties from Classic Media, which Entertainment Rights had just announced a deal to acquire. Under the plan, Genius would distribute six to 12 Entertainment Rights / Classic Media properties annually on home media. The Lone Ranger was among those Classic Media properties.[12] Instead, in April 2009, Boomerang Media bought out Entertainment Rights' holdings, including Classic Media,[13][14] which was acquired by DreamWorks Animation and renamed as DreamWorks Classics.[15][16]

While ownership of the Lone Ranger property was shifting ambiguously, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Entertainment Rights by May 2007 had set the film up at Walt Disney Pictures as Lone Ranger, under the leadership of then studio chairman Dick Cook.[3] Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, who had worked with Bruckheimer and Disney on the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, were being considered to write the script, [17] and entered final negotiation in March 2008.[18] Disney then announced in September 2008 that Johnny Depp would be portraying Tonto.[19]

The Elliot/Rossio script had a supernatural tone, including a plot element involving werewolves,[3] and was subsequently rewritten by Justin Haythe.[20] In May 2009, Mike Newell, who was then directing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time for Bruckheimer and Disney, entered negotiations to direct Lone Ranger.[21] However, Bruckheimer explained the following June that he wanted to wait on hiring a director until Newell completed Prince of Persia, and until Depp finished filming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. "The priority is most definitely Pirates 4," Bruckheimer commented. "They are going to cast the title role once they get a director and Disney greenlights. We don't have a director yet."[22] In September of 2010, Gore Verbinski was hired to direct. Verbinski had actually suggested the role of Tonto to Depp while filming the second Pirates of the Caribbean film.[23] Filming was slated to begin after Depp finished work on Dark Shadows.[24] Actor Armie Hammer was selected to play the Lone Ranger, a role that Bruckheimer described as being written for "a young Jimmy Stewart character".[25][26][27]

Setback

"When you’re spending other people’s money, you want to give them back a return on their investment. Every time you go out there, you have to swing for the fences."

Jerry Bruckheimer on the subject of the film's budget.[3]

On August 12, 2011, Disney announced that production on The Lone Ranger would be delayed due to budget concerns accosted by CEO Bob Iger and then studio chairman Rich Ross.[3][28] The studio and production team constrained the film's allocated budget; with Verbinski, Bruckheimer, Depp, and Hammer, equally deferring 20% of their salaries to minimize the overall cost.[3] After addressing the project's production problems in October 2011, Disney confirmed that the film was back on track after the budget was reworked to give the studio a chance to recoup its costs. Filming was initially reported to begin on February 6, 2012, for a projected release date of May 31, 2013,[29] which was subsequently moved to 4th of July weekend of that same year.

Filming

Principal photography began on March 8, 2012, with the first photograph of Hammer as the Lone Ranger and Depp as Tonto was released.[30] Filming locations spanned across six states: Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California.[25] Some filming occurred specifically near Creede, Colorado, in June 2012;[31] Moab, Utah, in July 2012; and Cimarron Canyon State Park in August.[32] Second unit (stunt/blue screen) work commenced in late September 2012 in the parking lot of Santa Anita Racetrack, Arcadia, California.[citation needed]

The film was shot in the anamorphic format, with cinematographer Bojan Bazelli utilizing Panavision Panaflex Platinum cameras and C- and G-Series lenses.[33]

The shoot was met with several problems including inclement weather, wildfires, a chickenpox outbreak and the death of crew member, Michael Andrew Bridger on September 21, 2012.[3][34][35] Several cast members had to receive formal training on horseback riding, gunslinging and lassoing.[36]

Industrial Light & Magic created the visual effects for The Lone Ranger.[37]

Music

Main article: The Lone Ranger (soundtrack)

In April 2012, it was announced that Jack White was hired to compose the score for the film.[38] However, White later declined to work on the film's music, citing scheduling conflicts and was replaced with Hans Zimmer in December of that year.[39] In March 2013, Michael Einziger tweeted that he was working with Zimmer on the score.[40]

The soundtrack was issued in two releases; the film score by Walt Disney Records on July 2, 2013 and the "inspired by" concept album by Hollywood Records on July 2.[41][42]

Release

As a result of the production setbacks, The Lone Ranger faced numerous shifts in release dates. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures initially scheduled the film for a mid-2011 release date,[43] but Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides replaced it, because the latter was considered a priority for the studio and because The Lone Ranger did not have a director.[44] After Gore Verbinski signed for director, The Lone Ranger's release date was moved to December 21, 2012. However, budget concerns and negotiations resulted in a production delay, so the release date was pushed further back to May 31, 2013.[45] By mid-2012, DreamWorks' Robopocalypse was facing its own production delays and could not meet its July 3, 2013 release date. Therefore, Disney had The Lone Ranger assume its place for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.[46]

The first trailer debuted at San Diego Comic-Con and theatrically on October 3, 2012.[47] Television promotions for the film aired during Super Bowl XLVII.[48] Disney used the film's production connection to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, as the main tagline in the film's marketing, as well as featuring the film's two main characters in promotional materials for Disney Infinity.[49][50]

The Lone Ranger was selected as the closing film for the Taormina Film Festival[51] and held its world premiere on June 22 at the Hyperion Theater in the Hollywood Land district of Disney California Adventure, with proceeds being donated to the American Indian College Fund.[52][53]

The film will be remastered and released in IMAX theaters on August 2, in several international territories including the United Kingdom and Japan.[54]

On its opening day, the film took in $15 million (July 3, 2013), which puts it under Disney's expectations.[55]

Reception

The Lone Ranger received mainly negative reviews, with a 25% rating from the film-critic aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 4.7/10 based on 110 reviews. The site's consensus says, "Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp make for an appealing pair of leads as the Lone Ranger and Tonto, but they're not enough to make up for The Lone Ranger's bland script, bloated length, and blaring action overkill."[56] The film holds a score of 37 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.[57]

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "the biggest stinker of 2013" and said that it was "a movie for the whole family ... to avoid. It represents 2 1/2 of the longest hours on record, a jumbled botch that is so confused in its purpose and so charmless in its effect that it must be seen to be believed, but better yet, no. Don't see it, don't believe it."[58] Lou Lumenick of the New York Post was equally scathing, calling it "the worst western—and then some... [a] bloated, misshapen mess, a stillborn franchise loaded with metaphors for its feeble attempts to amuse, excite and entertain."[59] Charlie McCollum of the San Jose Mercury News said, "In the end, The Lone Ranger is one hot mess—an entertaining one, to be sure, but still a mess."[60]

More positively, Jon Niccum of the Kansas City Star believes, "The movie takes a more old-fashioned approach to thrills. It appears to showcase as many stuntmen as it does digital compositors."[61] James Verniere of the Boston Herald said, "The film, part spoof, part pastiche, is chockablock with violent incident, spectacular settings, Buster Keaton-esque action and colorful characters out of spaghetti Westerns of yore."[62] Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com said, "This mordant and ambitious work of pop-political craftsmanship ... delivers, for my money, the most exciting action sequence in any of this summer’s big spectacles," and called it "an ambitious and inventive film that’s always trying to tweak formula and play with audience expectations. If anything, it’s overstuffed with imagination and ideas...."[63] One reviewer addressed critics' concerns over the film's tone by pointing out "the movie is told in flashback from the perspective of a wizened, quite eccentric character — the working definition of the film-school trope 'the unreliable narrator.' ... Whatever really happened out on the frontier, this is the story as Tonto remembers it, animist mysticism and all."[64]

Controversy

Some controversy concerned the casting of Depp as a Native American and whether the film would present a positive and accurate representation of the Comanche, despite the film's producers citing the presence of an adviser from the Comanche Nation.[65] Depp affirmed Native American ancestry in his family heritage and said he considered the role a personal attempt "to try to right the wrongs of the past", in reference to portrayals of Native American culture in the media.[66][67]

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