{"id":10829,"date":"2010-11-24T07:19:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T12:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=10829"},"modified":"2010-11-24T07:19:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T12:19:19","slug":"verbinski-officially-directing-lone-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/24\/verbinski-officially-directing-lone-ranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbinski Officially Directing LONE RANGER"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gore Verbinski has signed on the dotted line and is now officially the director for Disney’s The Lone Ranger<\/strong>. We knew this was a possibility back in September when it was reported<\/a> that he was in talks to to head up the project.<\/p>\n

This will mark the director’s fifth collaboration with Johnny Depp, who is attached to the the film in the role of the Lone Ranger’s sidekick Tonto<\/strong>. In addition to working together on the first three Pirates Of The Caribbean<\/strong> films, Depp has supplied the voice of the title character for Verbinski\u2019s debut outing as an animation director, Rango<\/strong>, due out next March.<\/p>\n

As the film has been curning in development at Disney for a while now, there is no one attached to the lead role of a Texas lawman who is gunned down, left for dead and then assumes a masked identity to hunt his would be killers. Presumably with Verbinski officially on board now, the project will heat up a bit and we may start hearing more casting news in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gore Verbinski has signed on the dotted line and is now officially the director for Disney’s The Lone Ranger. We knew this was a possibility back in September when it was reported that he was [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1460,333,653],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-gore-verbinski","8":"tag-johnny-depp","9":"tag-the-lone-ranger"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t