The Lone Ranger spends a good chunk of time marking off origin-story checklist items and very little time on the actual lone ranging. Good luck finding an R-rated summer blockbuster. All these things happen and there is nary a drop of blood to be seen. The film shows us death and gun violence but brushes aside any sense of consequence. The Length Problem The modern blockbuster suffers from a bloat problem, a bagginess problem.
The modern summer blockbuster is slowly but surely following that example. The Lone Ranger is two and a half hours long. The Pirates of the Caribbean movies — summer releases all and featuring the same star, producer and director as The Lone Ranger — run anywhere from two hours, sixteen minutes to nearly three hours.
Do studios feel that, with less people going to theaters these days, movies need to be lengthy in order for a moviegoer to feel justified in spending both their time and money? It has been critically panned, notching a 24 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a 37 percent on Metacritic , and ever since production was halted to bring the budget down, the industry press has had its knives out.
He was joined in his efforts by a native American named Tonto, most memorably played by Jay Silverheels. Verbinski, of course, enjoyed huge success with the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies, and Disney no doubt hopes to recapture a similarly wide audience with The Lone Ranger.
Ad — content continues below. Last August, the movie was briefly shelved, partly due to disagreements over how much it was costing to produce. One early version of the script, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, also had supernatural undertones to it. To cut down the effects budget, that screenplay has since been reworked by Justin Haythe, who ditched its spookier undertones, including some ghostly coyotes and a demon that turned victims into cannibals.
The irony is that The Lone Ranger is based on a frugal show, that itself sat in a genre once prized for its cost-effectiveness; most episodes of the old TV show consisted of little more than a few character actors, some sets and a horse. Verbinski, it seems, is hoping to do for the Western what he did for the swashbuckling pirate movie, and turn The Lone Ranger into the kind of multimedia blockbuster that breaks a billion dollars and launches lots of sequels.
Whatever your thoughts are on the creative merits of those films, you could certainly see where some of the money went — they were full of expensive locations, big boats both real and computer-generated sea monsters, and glossy special effects, including Bill Nighy with lots of tentacles all over his face.
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