With director Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger opening this Wednesday, Disney held a big press junket Santa Fe, New Mexico. While I’ve done a lot of interviews, it was incredibly cool to be talking to the cast and filmmakers with the beautiful New Mexico desert behind us. If you’ve missed the trailers, the story focuses on John Reid (Armie Hammer) surviving an attack, being saved by Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp), and the two teaming up to fight injustice. As you can see in this featurette, the production went to enormous lengths to film the majority of The Lone Ranger practically, and they shot at some amazing locations all around the country. The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, and Helena Bonham Carter.
During my interview with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, he talked about what he likes to collect, which scene he was nervous to shoot, which location impressed him the most, deleted scenes, and more. In addition, he also gave me an update on Pirates of the Caribbean 5. He said they plan on filming "end of this year, beginning of next year." Hit the jump to watch.
Finally, if you missed my interview with Johnny Depp you can watch it here.
Jerry Bruckheimer:
- What does he collect
- What was the one sequence he was most nervous to shoot
- Which location impressed him the most
- What's the status of Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Says they plan on filming "end of this year, beginning of next year."
- Talks about the challenge of always trying to make it better
- How about the deleted scenes in Lone Ranger
