Originally Posted By FerretAfros Just to let everybody know, Disney is about to make an official announcement in a couple hours from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood that they are actually making this film. It will be interesting to see how the newest version of this compares to the original.
Originally Posted By mawnck Oh swell. The last studio that did a Lone Ranger movie (ITC, 1981) went bankrupt as a result.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Interesting that this article seems to think that Johnny Depp will be starring in the Lone Ranger. I'm sure it's a mistake (confused with the live-action Alice in Wonderland announcement), but it's kind of funny to think about as well. <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080924/disney_films.html?.v=2" target="_blank">http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080924...tml?.v=2</a> That link also mentions the motion-capture Christmas Carol that the studio is doing with Jim Carey. I'm kind of disappointed to hear that it's still in the works, but glad that they are at least recognizing it as mostly live-action based.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>That link also mentions the motion-capture Christmas Carol that the studio is doing with Jim Carey.<< Now why hasn't anybody thought of making a movie adaptation of that one before? Originality is dead.
Originally Posted By DlandDug The announcement was kind of obtuse. The USC Marching Band entered the theater, and headed down the aisles playing the William Tell Overture. A large Lone Ranger logo filled the screen, which then lifted to reveal a live action Ranger, seated on a white horse. After horse and rider departed the stage, Dick Cook came back to say that Disney had decided to make the film. As he mused over who could play the role, Captain Jack Sparrow ambled in from the wings. He was wearing a familiar black mask, and had a pearl handled revolver tucked in his waistband. Sparrow offered the mask to Dick Cook, revealing that it really was Johnny Depp as Sparrow. As the crowd cheered, he offered Cook the revolver, they played around with the two props for a couple of minutes, and then Depp left the stage. No actual announcement was made, other than Cook's quip, "Wouldn't it be fun to make another pirate movie?"
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's one heck of a way to not announce something. Don't you love how Disney makes huge announcements about nothing, and then has big events to announce things, but doesn't quite manage to say what they are doing. On a related note, the band was originally supposed to march in while playing the Lone Ranger theme and march up onto the stage, but it startled the horse too much during the rehersal on Monday. Instead, they came in on drum cadence, and then played it standing in the aisle, perfectly still (all the usual visuals cut out). Funny that this happened, because USC's mascot Traveler just happens to be a lovely white horse who is very well behaved around the band, but for some reason they decided to go with a substitute horse for this event.
Originally Posted By Ursula Interesting talk around the office today is who is going to play the role of the Lone Ranger? It would have to be someone younger than Depp, someone who can stand up to him in a movie (or with him as Rush did), and someone attractive. Who can it be?
Originally Posted By dshyates Depp will play Tonto. That's right, you heard it here first. Johnny Depp will be Tonto.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains <Interesting talk around the office today is who is going to play the role of the Lone Ranger?. How about Eric Dane... He is nice looking tall and has a nice deep voice...
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Maybe Christian Bale -- he can do that weird Batman voice. 'I'm the Lone Ranger'
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>...it startled the horse too much during the rehersal on Monday.<< That horse was startled on Wednesday, too. At one point it nearly skidded off the stage and into the wings.
Originally Posted By Lil Mermaid Traveler lives next to my sister's old elementry school. Maybe he called in sick??
