Comments on: A New Lone Ranger Movie?

By: joe

joe — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:15:47 +0000

i always admired the L.R. but i hope the directors and actors make it a blockbuster hit.j.depp is tonto but who will play the mask man?glooney. pitt would make a good L.R. to. we need to bring good westerns back to the big screen.

By: Matt Kennedy

Matt Kennedy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:13:02 +0000

Actually im hoping the difference between the old Lone ranger shows and the new movie is the same as it was between “batman and robin” and “Batman Begins”…I’d love for the Lone Ranger to have that darker, more serious feel to it such as Batman Begins had, but not so violent or obscene that it ruins what the Lone Ranger was all about..

By: dlanodraw

dlanodraw — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:32:30 +0000

Let’s hope the producers and writers did not listen to Johnny Depp saying that the Lone Ranger’s character should be a fool. It is not his character, nor is it Tonto’s. But, maybe it is Depp’s?

By: dlanodraw

dlanodraw — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:42:10 +0000

Hey Guys,
The Lone Ranger movie had Disney following a contract code as set down by Fran Striker as part of the purchase. Now don’t let this throw you off base and cry. If The Ranger is played well, rides dynamically, and handles that gun it’s a good start. To write this with correct and polite awareness to the Indian is paramount and quite possible. Let’s face it, Lonesome Dove was great, Dances with Wolves was great. If it is well written in spite of a squeaky clean ranger as Fran Striker lays down, it can be done. The Story Line is Paramount. Let’s do it adult style and take out all the so called funny stuff in “Zorro”( Worse in the second one) Sure he needs to fight the bad guys, but do it with intelligence. The Mask is important, Silver is important, Tonto is important in the story line. The plot, super important and should brielly do the ranger deaths and The Lone Ranger beginning and finding Silver only enough to connect well. We don’t need great details with this generation of viewers. We do need good visual images and let’s not chase “Cavendish ” this time. The Cliffhanger element should be considered as part of the movie. They are still popular to see. I’ts no big deal if The Lone Ranger does not pump guys full of holes to kill them. They can show it the right way. Too much killing these days and rough violence. Sure it’s popular, but NOT necessary to write in all the time. When was the last time you saw Batman really kill someone mercilessly? When did you see Supernan or Spiderman do it with a Gun?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:11:14 +0000

ugh

By: HandnHalfSword

HandnHalfSword — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:45:03 +0000

I think one of the reasons that Westerns haven’t been big box office draw is the fact that almost every western in the last 30 years has been (I hope I have my terms right) a Revisionist Western.

In other words, rather than glorifying the rugged individual (a knight of the open range)who fights for justice where there is none, we get dirty, disfunctional saddle tramps.

The only Westerns I can think of in 30 years that were also action films were Tombstone and Silverado.

I think that a studio that got behind a western that was as kick-ass as Rio Bravo or Big Jake, and wasn’t trying to demystify the west would have a hit.

But the next western will probably be a postmodern look at the psychological factors and social conditions od blah blah blah…

The critics will love it and it wont sell many tickets.

Hollywood needs to watch some Audie Murphy movies then go Wrath of Khan on the concepts.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:41:09 +0000

I agree with Seth. It won't be anymore violent than Mask Of Zorro, which Rossio & Elliot wrote. In fact...I have some hopes for this (unless the writing team is booted off and rewritten; because then someone usually royally screws up the script) and I'll quote Terry himself from the forums of Wordplayer (Elliot &Rossio's site)

We have a cool approach that we think might work. There is a western to be done that movie fans fave been waiting to see, I think, and as good as some of the recent westerns have been, they haven't had that western thrill, sorry, hard to describe.

Int'l friends may also want to check out some of thier articles and essays about screenwriting and the pros and cons of Hollywood as well. Very insightful.

By: Seth Grimes

Seth Grimes — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:16:20 +0000

Hey rafa1215…The Lone Ranger isnt about “Blood,guts swearing,loose women,rasists,and all that crap.I hate it when movies try to tone films down in order to get a lower rating(thats just stupid),but I also hate when films add crap to make their films all tough n’bad.If the film tries to change the already existing character of the Lone Ranger I think it would ruin itself.Im sure there willl be plenty of violence in it,but Im looking foward to a Lone Ranger film and I DONT want to see it get messed up.

By: rafa1215

rafa1215 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:15:55 +0000

Ethernz I don’t know if you call “Cutthroat Island” a pirate movie. I hope they make this a darker Lone Ranger. Blood, guts, swearing, loose women, politically incorrect, racist, etc..

If they make a movie like that I’ll stand in line for it.

By: broseph

broseph — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:48:12 +0000

read the lone ranger comic book and you will see why they want to make a movie of this classic character. the comic book is amazzing