There seems to have been a pretty negative cloud hanging around next summer's Johnny Depp-headlined blockbuster, The Lone Ranger. We can understand part of the reason why. The last time that Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski worked together on live action movies, we got Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End. Neither of those films were very good. At all.
But Rango, their most recent collaboration, was excellent. Furthermore, the first Pirates Of The Caribbean movie, The Curse Of The Black Pearl, was far better than any of its sequels. Basically, The Lone Ranger really could go either way.
One big plus for us, although less so for Disney's bankers, is the amount of money that Verbinski appears to be ploughing into practical effects. Hopefully, this should give us some real spectacle to enjoy on the big screen.
We've got another taste of the movie now, anyway, with the release of a full length trailer for it. See what you make of this.
The Lone Ranger is released on July 3rd 2013 in the US, although it's not arriving in the UK until August 9th.
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