What actor would look more correct and be able to pull off the role, much less sell tickets from Indonesia to Argentina? Wes Studi?
Adam Beach, maybe.
The Lone Ranger remake shut down by Disney
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Adam Beach, maybe.
Maybe Dances with Werewolves?Cowboys & Werewolves? Wow, that sounds so dumb.
Open casting call for Disney film 'Lone Ranger' starring Johnny Depp cancelled
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I was just doing some math with an inflation calculator and it's amazing how expensive Hollywood films have become:
Thunderball - $9 million ($61.5 with inflation)
2001: A Space Odyssey - $10.5 million ($65 with inflation)
Raiders of the Lost Arc - $18 million ($42.6 with inflation)
Return of the Jedi - $32.5 million ($70.2 with inflation)
Jurassic Park - $63 million ($93.8 with inflation)
The Matrix - $63 million ($83.6 with inflation)
Revenge of the Sith - $113 million ($125 with inflation)
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $185 million ( $187.2 with inflation)
Quantum of Solace - $200 million ($202.3 with inflation)
I'm shocked at how cheap 2001, Jurassic Park, and the Matrix are compared to 21st century films. The past decade has not been kind to Hollywood's bank account.
Thunderball - $9 million ($61.5 with inflation)
2001: A Space Odyssey - $10.5 million ($65 with inflation)
Raiders of the Lost Arc - $18 million ($42.6 with inflation)
Return of the Jedi - $32.5 million ($70.2 with inflation)
Jurassic Park - $63 million ($93.8 with inflation)
The Matrix - $63 million ($83.6 with inflation)
Revenge of the Sith - $113 million ($125 with inflation)
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $185 million ( $187.2 with inflation)
Quantum of Solace - $200 million ($202.3 with inflation)
I'm shocked at how cheap 2001, Jurassic Park, and the Matrix are compared to 21st century films. The past decade has not been kind to Hollywood's bank account.
It's actually not a new idea. I remember reading a (thinly-disguised) Lone Ranger versus a werewolf story in Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine when I was a kid.
Silver bullets . . . werewolves . . . it just makes sense.
It all depends on how smart you are with your money. Lucas made Revenge of the Sith for $113 million, while the guys who made Green Lantern blew nearly $250 million on that trainwreck.
And, as I mentioned earlier, 3:10 to Yuma cost $55 million. The Coens' True Grit cost $38 million -- and that included building half a damn town.
And Verbinski wanted to make a $250 million Lone Ranger.
I'm ok with the Werewolves but as noted $250-75m is crazy!!!
JUST CRAZY!!!
As noted True Grit remake, $38m
Take the Underworld movies, around $30m budget there + Depps salary $20 + 30-40m for the rest of the cast and your still only around $150m. While the math is not a true reflection I hope I'm getting my point across.
Lone Ranger for $250m is someone not bidding out some contracts or else the US Congress is involved in spending on the film. Cause that type budget is grossly irresponsible. No wonder Disney said, "WHOA!!"
JUST CRAZY!!!
As noted True Grit remake, $38m
Take the Underworld movies, around $30m budget there + Depps salary $20 + 30-40m for the rest of the cast and your still only around $150m. While the math is not a true reflection I hope I'm getting my point across.
Lone Ranger for $250m is someone not bidding out some contracts or else the US Congress is involved in spending on the film. Cause that type budget is grossly irresponsible. No wonder Disney said, "WHOA!!"
It IS fun. I highly recommend it. It's about 80% Cowboy, 20% Alien. Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig are both VERY good. As is Clancy Brown, in a fairly small role as the town preacher.
It all depends on how smart you are with your money. Lucas made Revenge of the Sith for $113 million, while the guys who made Green Lantern blew nearly $250 million on that trainwreck.
And, as I mentioned earlier, 3:10 to Yuma cost $55 million. The Coens' True Grit cost $38 million -- and that included building half a damn town.
And Verbinski wanted to make a $250 million Lone Ranger.
The bigger the budget, the bigger the director's and producer's paycheck, I guess.
I'm still puzzled why the hell Star Trek 2009 cost 150 million, when Revenge of the Sith was made for 115 million (Attack of the Clones for 90 million, I believe).
Inflation (Revenge's $113 million in 2003, when it started filming, comes to about $130 million in 2007, when Star Trek began filming), more location shooting (plus shooting on film) on Trek, and they also built quite a few more sets on Trek, since Abrams didn't want to shoot against only greenscreens, but rather use them as extensions of what was already there.
Except that the Lone Ranger's silver bullets represent his refusal to take a life. On the radio show, he said he used them because "silver, like human life, is not cheap" (i.e. the cost of making the bullets encouraged him to keep their use to a minimum). It was also reportedly because silver bullets would be less likely than lead to fragment and send dangerous shrapnel flying when he used them to shoot people's guns from their hands.
So since a werewolf is human 90-plus percent of the time, would the Ranger be willing to kill one?
Depp, Verbinski and Bruckheimer were rumored to be taking part of the box office gross of Lone Ranger as payment to do the movie which means it would have had to be even more of a hit than normal to make Disney a profit.
But that and all the other budgetary concerns are secondary to the growing impact of international box office figures.
The latest Pirates movie was not that huge of a hit stateside, but internationally it was a monster hit. Hollywood is waking up to the fact that the biggest blockbusters are what have a built in international appeal. Westerns in general, the Lone Ranger potentially included, perform weakly internationally. So it makes perfect financial sense that a mega-budget western with little hope at big international BO is going to get canceled.
But that and all the other budgetary concerns are secondary to the growing impact of international box office figures.
The latest Pirates movie was not that huge of a hit stateside, but internationally it was a monster hit. Hollywood is waking up to the fact that the biggest blockbusters are what have a built in international appeal. Westerns in general, the Lone Ranger potentially included, perform weakly internationally. So it makes perfect financial sense that a mega-budget western with little hope at big international BO is going to get canceled.
That's a damned shame too. They should realize that the people who do like the Western genre prefer our Westerns sans aliens.
So people might get up in arms about a White guy playing a Native American role, yet everyone thinks its fine for Laurence Fishburne to play a White role? Hmmm...
In a just world it would leave the western genre unscathed and instead kill off the Moronic High Concept Sci-Fi Summer Movie genre instead.
As far as other nonsense goes...you've got to believe that white guys are terribly, terribly beaten down by The Man and badly under represented in the movies to take umbrage at a role like Perry White getting away from them.
We truly are a persecuted remnant.As far as other nonsense goes...you've got to believe that white guys are terribly, terribly beaten down by The Man and badly under represented in the movies to take umbrage at a role like Perry White getting away from them.
You really don't see the difference between allowing a minority to play a character that's commonly white (but doesn't have to be white) and letting a white man play a character that's very much established as being of a race that's pretty much a super-minority?
There's a world of difference between these two situations.