With an estimated budget of $225-250 million plus $150 million in marketing costs, The Lone Ranger would've unavoidably struggled to cover its costs, regardless of its general reception. Disney's Lone Ranger Was Far Too Expensive In truth, however, there were already concerns about the expensive western well before it opened, and for reasons that go beyond questions about the public's interest (or lack thereof) in the reboot to begin with. Related: TRON: Legacy - What Went Wrong With Disney's Long-Awaited SequelĪfter Pirates trilogy helmsman Gore Verbinski came aboard as its director in 2010, Disney's The Lone Ranger had most of the pieces in place to become a hit. Of course, things didn't work out as planned and the film bombed at the box office three years later, losing as much as $160-190 million. In spite of those concerns (and hoping to replicate their recent success with the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy), the Mouse House recruited Pirates 1-3 writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio to write the film before later hiring Jack Sparrow himself, Johnny Depp, to play Tonto opposite then up and comer Armie Hammer as the lead. From there, the characters went on to star in a handful of theatrical films, including a pair of movies released as part of the TV series in the '50s (with Moore and Silverheels reprising their roles).īy the time Disney started working on a Lone Ranger movie reboot in the late 2000s, it had already been close to thirty years since the character's most recent appearance on the big screen (in 1981's The Legend of the Lone Ranger), which begged the question of whether the property was actually commercially viable anymore. Created for radio in the 1930s, the onetime Texas Ranger-turned masked vigilante known as The Lone Ranger would quickly go on to become a pop cultural icon in the first half of the 20th century and make the jump to television in 1949, with Clayton Moore and John Hart playing the titular role opposite Jay Silverheels as his Native American comrade Tonto. Here's everything that went wrong with Disney's The Lone Ranger.
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