According to Deadline, the plug to Disney’s Lone Ranger flick starring Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer and directed by Gore Verbisnki, has been pulled. The news comes as quite a shock since the film had all principals cast and was ready to shoot in October. According to sources, it was a budget related issue (no, really!?). Apparently the budget had ballooned to 250 million, the studio wanted it brought down to 200 and the production just couldn’t do it. It’s all your fault Disney for making Depp a mega-salaried megastar.
The only sadness I feel over this is that I would have liked to see Armie Hammer in the goofily earnest role as the Lone Ranger. Oh well, I’ll live. I wonder if this had anything to do with Cowboys and Aliens flopping?
Even more shocking: the article revealed that the budget for John Carter crossed 300 mil. Sheesh. No wonder they’re gun shy.
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How in the world can a movie starring a cowboy on a mask, a white actor playing an Indian, and a white stallion cost 250+M?? You would think it would be the cheapest movie in the world to produce.
Shitty pop-up ads again? Really, CHUD?
Oh fuck you, Nick.
Exactly what I was wondering. Depp’s salary aside, this felt like a $50 million budget, max.
You suck.
To clarify: The site is in really dire straits. I don’t control what ads happen. We need support and patience more than ever. And then comments like yours. Fuck me? Really? Super.
300 million for John Carter? That’s gonna be some Water World-level shit there, man. Hopefully I’m wrong, though.
What was Johnny getting? $150 million? Gore should un-hitch his wagon to Depp’s star. Johnny would look like a child next to Armie anyway.
Glad to see this happen. I am tired of Depp and his increasingly lazy schick, and am ambivalent to Armie Hammer. When you consider the premise of this film, and the weird race issues inherent, this was just never going to be a film I’d find worthwhile. Also, 250 million? For a movie with no dinosaurs or fantastical locations? I don’t get it..
Maybe the BIOSHOCK movie can happen for Verbinski instead?
PS Just make MASK OF ZORRO 2 for 100 million as an alternative (I am pretending LEGEND OF doesn’t exist)!
Hey Ben, where you come from is money falling out of the sky?
Been reading CHUD for 12 years. If it’s in dire straits, I’m happy to view ads to keep it alive, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.
I don’t tolerate ANY site that subjects me to pop-ups. That’s how i lost MY LAST 2 COMPUTERS. And with the reports of viruses around here, consider my ass gone.
Dire straits? No wonder.
Retarded. What does this mean?
Sad
250 million? I guess I don’t even have to say “Fuck This Movie!” Disney already fucked it for me. And it seems they made the right decision. Why the hell does a Lone Ranger movie need to cost 250 or 200 million at all anyway? Whatever happened to movies that cost 100 million? Is anyone ever going to get back to even that cost, which was once considered outrageous?
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