THE LONE RANGER Set Photos & Gore Verbinski Denies Werewolves

well gald there's no werewolves. That would have been stupid for the Lone Ranger. Save it for some other movie.

@valeriesghost Its very much like The Green Hornet or Batman set in the old west. It started out as a radio show. In fact the Lone Ranger is the original Green Hornets Great Uncle. They were both created by the same people. Both also have the last name Reed.

I'm so excited for this movie! I've been waiting for this for a long time!

TONTO MEANS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!




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I just LOVE how you try to Ignore and Downplay your own hate.... It just TICKLES me.

But even so, we all know that this move (like the show) was RACIST TO THE BONE!

TONTO MEANS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!


GIFSoup

Awesome glad it won't have werewolves. That was stupid. Those worried about Tonto I'm sure they'll make him awesome. So don't worry about it.

I knew that before Wikipedia. LOL!

MANY PEOPLE did before a CPU was even a common house hold Item.

Everyone isn't living under a ROCK like YOU!

LOL! ;D

@NubaX Really what was this documentary called that said this creator of The Lone Ranger came up with the name as a raciest insult to Native Americans? Your full of shit. And I have heard that rumor before its like an urban legend. I bet you think some lady really cooked her baby in the oven while on PCP thinking it was a turkey too. If enough people say a lie long enough people start to believe it as fact.

Here is where the name came from along with the word Kee Mo Sah Bee. "Camp Kee Mo Sah Bee belonged to the father-in-law of the show's director, James Jewell. According to author David Rothel, who interviewed Jewell a few months before his death "Kee Mo Sah Bee" and "Tonto" ("wild one") were the only two words that Jewell remembered from those days. There were a few Potawatomi Indians who would come to the camp to tell stories to the children.
One of the Indians apparently had a penchant for drinking after the children had gone to sleep. Sometimes he would get rowdy and the other Indians would call him "tonto." This meant "wild one" in Potawatomi.

Jewell remembered the word, liked it, and gave the name to the Lone Ranger's Indian companion.

Yep! ;)

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"I don't know where this idea of werewolves came from. It's never been in any draft I've worked on. But there's a kind of Native American overlay of omens and other things happening that we don't fully understand."

Another newrd in his basement on the internet strikes again!!!!

Werewolves.. I remember reading a creepy or Eerie horror comics mag when I was a kid and there was cowboy werewolf story that ended with the Lone Ranger and Tonto killing the main wolf then explaining the reason he carried silver bullets was due to werewolves.. I need to find the book and make some scans of it.

"We'll put him on a cross. We'll destroy him." Why? What in the blue hell is wrong with presenting heroes, and presenting them as good role models for kids and people you can admire and respect? That is the foundation upon which the entire comic book industry was built.

If there is one thing I truly despise in modern movies, it's the way heroes are presented. Heroes today have to be more flawed than the villains. There is very little about them for anyone to admire or respect. They have to whine about not wanting their powers or whatever, and they have to be forced by circumstances to do the right thing, rather than just manning up and doing the right thing just because... it's the right thing.

I don't want to see the Lone Ranger "put on a cross and destroyed". I want to see him face the ambush of his unit of Texas Rangers, fashion a mask from his dead brother's vest, and head out to bring those responsbile for the ambush to justice. A hero faces adversity and steps up to do the right thing and make sure that justice prevails.

Tonto is Spanish for stupid
its funny because the Indian is called stupid
and the white guy is called wise one or something like that
Kimosabe means wise one in some native tongue that is not my own.

I for one will not support any form of entertainment that does not portray natives accurately.
and that means using actual natives for native roles

I once wrote my own version of the lone ranger and tonto
It was about the fastest gun in the west and his native sidekick traveling the old west kicking ass and taking names...
oh yea did I mention that the fastest gun in the west happened to be ambiguously gay and it was a musical

@kunyahk- The french name Dumas sounds a lot like dumb ass in english. So what?

Last time I checked, Tonto was an Indian, not a Latino.

love that there is no Werewolf element...

still hating the Depp as Tonto element

No werewolves! Yippee!!! But a parking lot doubling as a desert and railway? I have concerns. Did the budget shrink that much that sets have to be imaginary?

It's funny that everybody saying that "Tonto" is a racist term. But there is actually an Apache tribe by the name "Tonto Apache". Look it up.

@ComicbOOkguy
I think you have got it a bit wrong there, he is not saying that the Lone Ranger is flawed but society is, we put people on pedestals but at the same time we enjoy knocking them down as well.

Also I think it's like that speech Green Arrow made in Identity Crisis about the mask, being the only thing protecting the family, friends and the personal life of the hero. Found the quote I think it sums it my view;

"Think about your own life, Wally - everything you've done to keep your secrets safe. You don't just wear the mask for yourself. It's for your wife, your parents, even for - one day - your children. There are animals out there, Wally. And when it comes to family, we can't always be there to defend them. But the mask will."

I think this is what Verbinski is getting at when he talks about the mask, not a flawed hero.