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This all took place just a few months after the studio's motion-capture movie Mars Needs Moms had bombed at the box office (losing upwards of $144 million) and the budget for their then-unreleased John Carter had ballooned as high as $263 million, so there was added pressure on Disney to to get The Lone Ranger's budget under control before shooting began. The Mouse House was well-aware of that too, which is why they formally delayed production on the film in the summer of 2011 in an effort to reduce their expenditures.
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With an estimated budget of $225-250 million plus $150 million in marketing costs, The Lone Ranger would've unavoidably struggled to cover its costs, regardless of its general reception. Disney's Lone Ranger Was Far Too Expensive In truth, however, there were already concerns about the expensive western well before it opened, and for reasons that go beyond questions about the public's interest (or lack thereof) in the reboot to begin with. Related: TRON: Legacy - What Went Wrong With Disney's Long-Awaited SequelĪfter Pirates trilogy helmsman Gore Verbinski came aboard as its director in 2010, Disney's The Lone Ranger had most of the pieces in place to become a hit. Of course, things didn't work out as planned and the film bombed at the box office three years later, losing as much as $160-190 million. In spite of those concerns (and hoping to replicate their recent success with the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy), the Mouse House recruited Pirates 1-3 writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio to write the film before later hiring Jack Sparrow himself, Johnny Depp, to play Tonto opposite then up and comer Armie Hammer as the lead.
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From there, the characters went on to star in a handful of theatrical films, including a pair of movies released as part of the TV series in the '50s (with Moore and Silverheels reprising their roles).īy the time Disney started working on a Lone Ranger movie reboot in the late 2000s, it had already been close to thirty years since the character's most recent appearance on the big screen (in 1981's The Legend of the Lone Ranger), which begged the question of whether the property was actually commercially viable anymore. Created for radio in the 1930s, the onetime Texas Ranger-turned masked vigilante known as The Lone Ranger would quickly go on to become a pop cultural icon in the first half of the 20th century and make the jump to television in 1949, with Clayton Moore and John Hart playing the titular role opposite Jay Silverheels as his Native American comrade Tonto. Some of the information here was taken from Wikipedia, thanks to those guys.Here's everything that went wrong with Disney's The Lone Ranger. However, the phrase "faithful friend" has also been associated with the term Kemo Sabe. In the pilot of the Clayton Moore TV series, "Enter the Lone Ranger", Tonto explicitly states that " Kemosabe" means "trusty scout". The translation was said to mean "trusty scout." Fran Striker, the writer of the Lone Ranger scripts, said the actual expression was Ta-i ke-mo sah-bee, which he said meant "greetings trusty scout".
The origin of this expression is somewhat unclear, but James Jewell, an early director of the radio series, said the name comes from a boy's camp located on Mullett Lake, Michigan that his father-in-law had run from 1911 to 1941. Tonto greets the Lone Ranger with the expression " kemosabe", which has also been written " Kemo Sabe" or "Kemo Sabhay". The Lone Ranger was a long-running early radio and television show based on a masked cowboy in the American Old West, who gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever and laconic American Indian called Tonto, and his horse Silver.