The sensitivities of American Indians were an issue before filming began because of the role of Tonto. … They could have made a fortune, but they didn’t.’
“Gore has his own creative vision of what he wants, and he found places that excited him,’ Bruckheimer said.īruckheimer praised the Navajo Nation, which owns the Monument Valley area, because “they kept it pristine and didn’t let developers come in. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who worked with Verbinski on the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean’ films, called Monument Valley “great.’ “It moved from all those John Ford Westerns, then it migrated to Marlboro commercials, and then it disappeared for a while.’ “It’s sort of the most overly photographed landscape ever,’ Verbinski said of Monument Valley. “I know Gore wanted to be here more days than he was,’ Moore said. The production shot about 25 days in Utah, primarily in Monument Valley and around Moab. The production also filmed in Utah, Arizona, Colorado and California. The movie, with a budget reported to exceed $200 million, shot 80 percent of its principal photography in New Mexico, according to Marshall Moore, director of the Utah Film Commission. Reid is found by a passing Indian, Tonto (played in the film by Johnny Depp), who creates Reid’s signature mask and rides with him to seek justice against Cavendish and his cohorts. “The Lone Ranger’ (which opens nationwide on WednesdayJuly 3) tells of a young lawman, John Reid (played in the new film by Armie Hammer), who is the sole survivor when a group of Texas Rangers - including John’s brother Dan (James Badge Dale) - is ambushed by the notorious outlaw Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner). The land where John Ford shot “Stagecoach’ and countless other redrock Westerns returns to the big screen next week, featured prominently in “The Lone Ranger,’ Disney’s big-budget reboot of the classic Western story that has been told since 1933 in radio, television and movies. “You couldn’t pan a camera and not go, ‘ That’s from this movie,” ‘ Verbinski said of shooting in the landmark location that straddles Utah’s southern border with Arizona.
If you love Westerns, as filmmaker Gore Verbinski does, then the landscapes of Monument Valley are as familiar as Clint Eastwood’s squint and John Wayne’s walk. Utah’s iconic Monument Valley sets stage in ‘The Lone Ranger’ – The Denver Post Close Menu
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