In a brief interview with
COMING SOON, Director Gore Verbinski was questioned about his next planned team-up with actor Johnny Depp,
The Lone Ranger:
"It's sort of 'Don Quixote' told from Sancho Panza's point of view," said Verbinski of the Justin Haythe script, indicating that Depp's Tonto will actually be the main character, "...But it's coming along really great...[It] wouldn't shoot until next year, probably, because Johnny's doing 'Dark Shadows.'"
The Lone Ranger is expected to hit theaters in 2012.
Verbinski was also questioned about an adaption of the popular video game
BioShock he was once slated to direct and why it never happened:
"I couldn't really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating," he explained, "Alternately, I wasn't really interested in pursuing a PG-13 version. Because the R rating is inherent. Little Sisters and injections and the whole thing. I just wanted to really, really make it a movie where, four days later, you're still shivering and going, "Jesus Christ!"... It's a movie that has to be really, really scary, but you also have to create a whole underwater world, so the pricetag is high. We just didn't have any takers on an R-rated movie with that pricetag."
Verbinski's latest animated Depp team-up
Rango did not follow the 3D trend most animated movies seem to be following, But he did express interest in the idea of
BioShock being in 3D:
"[Bioshock] would be a great movie to do in 3D. I'd like to go into that world wearing a pair of glasses. I think in general, gaming is perfect for 3D. Anything where you're the protagonist. The kid in 'The Shining' on the big wheel, going around corridors. That's what 3D is perfect for. To make people feel on-edge."