Thompson on Hollywood: Can Runaway Western 'The Lone Ranger' Make Its Money Back? Review and Round-Up

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Can Runaway Western 'The Lone Ranger' Make Its Money Back? Review and Round-Up Jul 1st 2013, 17:46, by Anne Thompson The scuttle from the set of the prodigiously expensive "The Lone Ranger," the latest move from the producer, writers and director behind the lucrative "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, was that Gore Verbinski was yet another runaway director run amok, not unlike Michael Cimino on "Heaven's Gate," lavishing millions of dollars on building two working 250-ton 19th-century style trains (hydraulic, not steam) to run on a five-mile oval track with a stretch of double tracks, among other things. The film's turbulent production history included neophyte Disney studio head Rich Ross (since replaced by ex-Warners president Alan Horn, 70, who talks about the movie to THR here) pulling back the budget from $260 million to greenlight the film at $215 million. Dream on. Verbinski's attitude during production was to spend freely to make the movie he wanted, presumably on the basis that the four "Pirates" films (not all directed by him) had grossed $3.7 billion at the global box office. Everyone in... Media files: the-lone-ranger02.jpg (image/jpeg)

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