A sneak peek as Armie Hammer's Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp's Tonto ride again -- as equals.
9:47AM EST October 1. 2012 - LAMY, N.M. -- Forget about his secondary roles in the novels, the radio program and the TV series. In the upcoming film The Lone Ranger, Tonto walks side-by-side with the famous masked lawman.
"I'm a long way from Jack Sparrow," Johnny Depp, who stars as a boldly re-imagined Tonto in The Lone Ranger, admits. But Depp is clearly banking on the same magic which made his quirky character from Pirates of the Caribbean a household name. With original Pirates director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer -- alongside Armie Hammer as the famous masked gunman -- Depp and company just wrapped up their Lone Ranger in the California mountains after lengthy stops in New Mexico, Colorado California and Utah. It’s set for a July 3, 2013 release. Peter Mountain Disney, Enterprises
"We're made a big Western the old-fashioned way," says Verbinski, who directed the first three Pirate movies and re-teamed with producer Bruckheimer and Depp for The Lone Ranger. "You have to go there." "This is right before the Lone Ranger and Tonto head out on their journey together," Verbinksi says of the Monument Valley, Utah shot. "This is the first time they make a decision to work as a team." Peter Mountain, Disney Enterprises
The tough part about being equals is that the Lone Ranger and Tonto often don’t see eye-to eye. "It's a dysfunctional buddy movie," say Verbinski. "It's two guys who start literally and figuratively handcuffed together who end up on the same mission with completely different world views. They sort of rub off on one another. But they have plenty of disagreements." Disney Enterprises
Depp's Comanche Tonto "is an odd-shaman, an outcast from his own tribe, who has created his own mystical world" says Verbinski. Even his crow headpiece has a moving life of its own that somehow changes in scenes. "It's his companion. It's a stuffed bird that he feeds birdfeed." Disney Enterprises
The emergence of the steam-powered train plays a huge part in The Lone Ranger.“All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world,” says Verbinski. “The train represents all of that. What do we give up in the name of progress?” Peter Mountain, Disney Enterprises
“This is their bad-ass moment,” says Verbinski of the scene where The Lone Ranger and Tonto emerge from smoke-filled mayhem (he declines to talk further).Adds Hammer: “Johnny and I have been able to create a really good dynamic between these two guys.” Peter Mountain, Disney Enterprises
“This is during an attack sequence,” says Verbinski. “The film has everything you can want, from Cavalry to Comanche.””My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up,” he says. “It’s hard and treacherous work. It’s hard to find people these days who can ride horses like that and jump onto trains.” Peter Mountain, Disney Enterprises
There are so many train scenes in The Lone Ranger that the filmmakers built their own period train. “It was a modern train clad in a steam engine just to get through all the work we had to do,” says Verbinski. “The train sequences are really entertaining.”The train robbery is an iconic Western shot. “But we turn it on its head.” Peter Mountain, Disney Enterprises
"This is all about two guys who are on the same path, but who have come from two very different worlds," says Armie Hammer, who plays the title character in the action-adventure flick due out July 3, 2013.
Putting Tonto on equal footing is helped by the fact that he is played by Johnny Depp, who reunites with his Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer for the film, which just wrapped its lengthy shoot.
"The challenge was to turn the story on its head and reinvent it," says Verbinski, pointing out that his story is even narrated by Tonto. "Everyone has heard about the Lone Ranger, but not from the only other who was there -- Tonto."
Depp's Comanche shaman character is a daunting vision complete with eerie full torso makeup and a stuffed crow headpiece.
"This is not the look you want to wake up to in the middle of the night and see hovering above you," admits Depp, who helped create the appearance.
He and Hammer both enrolled in Old West boot camp before filming -- Hammer learned to dismount at full gallop and Depp perfected bareback riding. "Johnny really embraced the Comanche culture, says Verbinski.
There were almost nasty consequences as Depp had one spill where his horse miraculously avoided hitting his head with its hooves.
"There was potential for real badness," says Depp. "But we got through it."
The tale re-frames the hero's journey from law-abiding John Reid to the man who is forced to don the Lone Ranger mask and work outside the law. It includes the silver bullets and, naturally, the famous "Hi-Yo Silver" cry.
"Right before the horse threw its legs up in that scene, the thought went through my head, 'I'm really about to yell this right now,' " says Hammer, who will unveil the film's first trailer on Tuesday's Tonight Show with Jay Leno. "As the horse landed, the whole crew roared. Johnny told me, 'That was blankety-blank awesome.' "
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