The Lone Ranger

Director: Gore Verbinski Gore Verbinski

Overview

The Lone Ranger rides again with this big-budget Walt Disney Pictures production starring Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the famed gunman. The story centers on Tonto's recollection of the adventures that found lawman John Reid transformed into The Lone Ranger, legendary hero of the Old West. Gore Verbinski directs from a script by Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/17/2013
UPC:	0786936823455
Original Release:	2013
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Walt Disney Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:29:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Johnny Depp	Tonto
Armie Hammer	The Lone Ranger,Actor
William Fichtner	Actor
Tom Wilkinson	Actor
Ruth Wilson	Actor
Helena Bonham Carter	Actor
James Badge Dale	Actor
Bryant Prince	Actor
Barry Pepper	Actor
Mason Cook	Actor
JD Cullum	Actor
Saginaw Grant	Actor
Harry Treadaway	Actor
James Frain	Actor
Damon Herriman	Actor
Matt O'Leary	Actor
W. Earl Brown	Actor
Timothy V. Murphy	Actor
Gil Birmingham	Actor
Damon Carney	Actor
Kevin Wiggins	Actor
Chad Brummett	Actor
Robert Baker	Actor
Lew Temple	Actor
Joseph E. Foy	Actor
Leon Rippy	Actor
Stephen Root	Actor
Randy Oglesby	Actor
Brad Greenquist	Actor
Rance Howard	Actor
Leonard Earl Howze	Actor
Steve Corona	Actor
Matt Page	Actor
Jack Axelrod	Actor
Christopher Hagen	Actor
Margaret Bowman	Actor
Luz P. Mendez	Actor
Laina Loucks	Actor
Devon J. Adams	Actor
Desirae Anslover	Actor
Charlotte Cormier	Actor
Megan Pribyl	Actor
Briana VanSchuyver	Actor
Julie Stracener	Actor
Chad Randall	Actor
Jason Hill	Actor,Mob Member
Todd Anderson	Actor
Beth Bailey	Actor
Joanne Camp	Actor
John Keating	Actor
Stephen Brodie	Actor
Will Koberg	Actor
Jack Chang	Actor
Tad Jones	Actor
Robin McGee	Actor
Bob Rumnock	Actor
Grover Coulson	Actor
Tait Fletcher	Actor
Alex Knight	Actor
Argos MacCallum	Actor
David Midthunder	Actor
Allison Volk	Actor
Pokey LaFarge	Actor
Joseph Glynn	Actor
Adam Hoskins	Actor
Ryan Koenig	Actor
Tom E. Rostkowski	Actor
Malachi Tsoodle-Nelson	Actor
Sean Durham	Actor
Anthony R. Burt	Actor
R.J. Kirkhope	Actor,Actor
Kenneth Love	Actor
Joaquín Cosio	Jesus
Freda Shen	Kai
Hans Zimmer	Composer,Actor
Bojan Bazelli	Actor
Gore Verbinski	Actor
Ted Elliott	Actor
Jerry Bruckheimer	Actor
Terry Rossio	Actor
Brett Becker	Actor
Justin Haythe	Actor
Ian Bender	Actor
Eric Ellenbogen	Actor
Christopher Boyes	Actor
Eric McLeod	Actor
Chad Oman	Actor
Mike Stenson	Actor
Clayton Moore	Actor

Technical Credits

Justin Haythe

Ted Elliott

Terry Rossio

Justin Haythe	Screenwriter
Gore Verbinski	Director,Producer
Ted Elliott	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Terry Rossio	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Jerry Bruckheimer	Producer
Mike Stenson	Executive Producer
Chad Oman	Executive Producer
Johnny Depp	Executive Producer
Eric Ellenbogen	Executive Producer
Eric McLeod	Executive Producer
Addison Teague	Sound/Sound Designer
Shannon Mills	Sound/Sound Designer
Christopher Boyes	Sound/Sound Designer,Sound Effects
Gary Rydstrom	Sound/Sound Designer
Denise Chamian	Casting
Lee Orloff	Sound Mixer
Joel Harlow	Makeup Special Effects
John Frazier	Special Effects Supervisor
Robert Shoup	Sound Effects
Josh Gold	Sound Effects
Adam Kopald	Sound Effects
J.R. Grubbs	Sound Effects
Ken Fischer	Sound Effects
Thomas Robinson Harper	Stunts
James Ashwill	Sound Effects
Brett Becker	Sound Effects
Ian Bender	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Director Gore Verbinski teams up yet again with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and star Johnny Depp for a reimagining of the iconic Western hero the Lone Ranger that comes loaded with Depp playing a heavily made-up eccentric, a series of Rube Goldberg-esque action sequences, and a cast stocked with talented Brits. Basically, it's everything the Pirates of the Caribbean movies taught these guys that the market demands. The plot, though overly complicated in the telling, is actually quite simple. Educated lawyer John Reid (Armie Hammer) returns to his hometown of Colby, TX, on a train that's carrying the fearsomely violent bad guy Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner), who is being hauled in by the local civic bigwig Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson) so that the killer can be publicly hanged in order to assure the townsfolk of their safety. Also on the train bringing Butch and John to Colby is Tonto (Johnny Depp), a mystical, deadpan Comanche whom we eventually learn has been shunned by his tribe and has revenge on his mind due to events from his past. After Cavendish pulls off an elaborate escape with the help of his gang, a posse led by John's older brother Dan (James Badge Dale) hunt down the bandits until they are ambushed and massacred by the Cavendish crew. Surprisingly, John survives the attack and is rescued by Tonto, who informs the gun-shy Texan that he is now a spirit warrior who can't be killed in battle. John dons a black mask, and he and Tonto work together to seek vengeance. For about the first hour of the film's 150-minute running time, Verbinski's take on The Lone Ranger has an admirable proficiency -- he's a director who can set up cartoonish action sequences that are enjoyable, but they extend for so long that eventually you realize you don't really care what happens to the characters. At that point -- and it's a point that arrives eventually in almost all of his movies -- Verbinski shows that he's basically a soulless Steven Spielberg; he's a mechanically gifted filmmaker capable of ingenious visual gags and propulsive editing, but doesn't have much interest in his characters. It's as if, once he's explained their motivations, he doesn't want to spare them another thought. What makes him able to helm such successful blockbusters is that at some level he knows this. He approaches genre films -- whether pirate adventures, Japanese horror (The Ring), or screwball comedies (The Mexican) -- with the intention of showing you something you've never seen before, rather than a desire to tell stories about three-dimensional people. To compensate, he hires first-rate actors and lets them bring the characters to life. That approach works intermittently, but here the story is so ponderously plotted -- it takes forever to get everybody's backstory, and a pointless framing device set 60 years after the main action weighs down an already bloated screenplay -- that apathy bleeds much of the fun to be had out of the spectacular set pieces. There are enjoyable bits of business along the way. Depp has concocted another thoroughly original comedic creation in Tonto, who's a cross between his character from the Jim Jarmusch film Dead Man and Buster Keaton. If Verbinski, and not just Depp, had stolen a little more from both of those sources, The Lone Ranger might feel like something more than another Disney megafranchise.