The Lone Ranger - LaughingPlace.com Movie Guide

The Lone Ranger
May 31, 2013

Plot Summary

The Long Ranger reunites the filmmaking team of the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” blockbusters—producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski—with Johnny Depp, who created Captain Jack Sparrow in his iconic, Academy Award®-nominated performance and contributed the voice of the title character of Verbinski’s Academy Award-winning “Rango.”

Depp plays spirit warrior Tonto in “The Lone Ranger,” with Armie Hammer (“The Social Network,” “J. Edgar”) starring in the title role. Depp and Hammer are joined by a prestigious international cast which includes Tom Wilkinson, two-time Academy Award nominee (“Michael Clayton,” “In the Bedroom”) and Golden Globe® and Emmy® winner (“John Adams”); William Fichtner (Jerry Bruckheimer’s productions of “Armageddon,” “Pearl Harbor” and “Black Hawk Down”); Emmy Award-winner Barry Pepper (TV’s “The Kennedys,” “True Grit,” “Saving Private Ryan”); James Badge Dale (“The Grey,” TV’s “The Pacific” and “Rubicon”); Ruth Wilson (television’s “Jane Eyre” and “Luther”); and two-time Academy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe nominee Helena Bonham Carter (“The King’s Speech,” “Alice in Wonderland”). 

Additional Details

Disney officially announced The Lone Ranger at a presentation in Hollywood's Kodak Theater on September 24, 2008.  From the LaughingPlace.com discussion boards (user: DlandDug): The USC Marching Band entered the theater, and headed down the aisles playing the William Tell Overture. A large Lone Ranger logo filled the screen, which then lifted to reveal a live action Ranger, seated on a white horse. After horse and rider departed the stage, Dick Cook came back to say that Disney had decided to make the film.