The Lone Ranger (2013)
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- Gore Verbinski originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- During the filming of The Lone Ranger, Johnny Depp improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
The Lone Ranger is a 2013 American Western action film directed by Gore Verbinski, a massive-budget reimagining of the classic character. Armie Hammer stars as John Reid, a mild-mannered lawyer who becomes the masked vigilante known as the Lone Ranger after his brother and fellow Texas Rangers are massacred by the outlaw Butch Cavendish, played by William Fichtner. Johnny Depp co-stars as Tonto, a Comanche warrior with his own vendetta against Cavendish, who guides the naive Reid through the lawless West while narrating the story as an elderly Tonto in a 1933 carnival sideshow.
The Lone Ranger's $215 million budget made it one of the most expensive films ever produced, and its commercial performance of $260 million worldwide resulted in a widely reported loss for Disney. The train chase climax, set to the William Tell Overture, was a spectacular, Rube Goldberg-esque action sequence that many critics praised as the film's finest stretch.





