Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer behind the Pirates movies, made sure that all of Disney’s $250 million investment is on the screen. Filmed in scenic New Mexico, with side trips to Utah’s Monument Valley, Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly and Colorado’s Durango, The Lone Ranger revels in the actual (as opposed to virtual) grandeur of an arid land worth fighting for. The West looks mighty handsome in The Lone Ranger, the latest Depp-Verbinski tribute to a genre that dominated Hollywood for decades, then died out when Star Wars and other action pictures transported sheriffs and shoot-’em-ups to Fantasy Land. “The Pirates movies were westerns, Star Wars is a western. “I think the western has been hiding a bit,” Verbinski told TIME.
In 2011, Depp teamed with Gore Verbinski, his director on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, for the animated feature Rango, a tribute to every oater about a stranger who wanders into a threatening western town - except that this Man With No Name is a lizard. He starred in Jim Jarmusch’s corpse opera Dead Man in 1995, and made his directorial debut two years later with The Brave, a surpassingly weird modern sagebrush saga in which he played a luckless American Indian who agrees to appear in a snuff film produced by Marlon Brando.
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