Through Tonto’s eyes, audiences get an origin tale of how former lawman John Reid, the Lone Ranger, came to fight injustice in the Old West. Once the idea was hatched to make him the narrator, “it opened a lot of doors” in terms of storytelling, he said.
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“It’s a story we’ve all heard, but we’ve never heard it from the guy who was there,” the film’s director Gore Verbinski, 49, told Reuters.įor the new incarnation, Verbinski wanted to update the story by making Tonto more relevant than just a sidekick. Director Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger is for anyone who thought the Native American guy from the Village People and a western-wear model would make the perfect blockbuster-action team.
Edge Performance, a film company that subcontracts for Silver Bullet Productions, can shoot any angle to create special effects. In an opening sequence - a breakneck fight scene on a runaway train - Tonto directs an escape from outlaws while a mask-less Lone Ranger, played by Armie Hammer, is the naive one, unsure at the outset that he was even in danger. The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, filmed hours of train shots on Shank’s line between mile markers 305 to 311 near South Fork. I think on Lone Ranger, one of our most difficult scenes to film was the grave sequence because of the logistics of all of the sand. And the second was one particular attribute of the desert itself. The first Keeping the white horses clean.
Played by Johnny Depp with the same offbeat charm as his Captain Jack Sparrow in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, Tonto is the brains of the operation. Of the challenges presented in filming this particular movie, Bobby could only name two. theaters on Wednesday, it will be Tonto who takes center stage. Cast member Johnny Depp waves at the world premiere of "The Lone Ranger" at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California June 22, 2013.