Johnny Depp's 'Lone Ranger': Disney Hits The Brakes

by Sterling Wong Its a difficult economy available at this time, as well as Hollywood, chief creator of dreams and dreams, is feeling it. Despite proven box office rainmakers The Actor-brad Pitt and Gore Verbinski attached, word got out last Friday that Disney was shutting lower producing "The Lone Ranger due to its overblown $200 million cost. With franchises like Rise from the Planet from the Apes and Thor showing that cautiously allocated movies can continue to become hits, galleries have apparently stiffened their reins and be increasingly more not wanting to greenlight costly projects. Indeed, The Lone Ranger isn't the only large-budget project Hollywood has closed its doorways in recent several weeks following the jump, take a look at three other ambitious films which got the boot this season. "In the Mountain tops of Madness" The saga of Gullermo del Toros pet project continues to be well-recorded during these parts. Madness, a cult short story by horror author H.P Lovecraft, told the storyplot of the Antarctic expedition that finds out some fantastical and terrible ruins, including mythical animals. The film was ready to visit, with del Toro in the helm and Tom Cruise attached, until Universal condemned the brakes about the $150 million project over del Toros insistence release a it by having an R rating rather than a PG-13. Most probably the studio was worried that the R rating would limit the flicks audience making it harder for this to make money. Stop worrying though for all of us film nerds. Talking with MTV News a week ago, the director is certain that Mountain tops is going to be made at some point, saying, 'Mountains' may happen eventually. Cthulu willing, well have it made. Seems like a promise in my experience! "The Dark Tower" This ones not too surprising. Recently, Universal rejected to proceed with Ron Howards dangerous and ultra-daring adaptation of Stephen Nobleman classic 7-novel series starring Javier Bardem which was designed to include three movies and 2 television seasons. While no official reason was proffered, chances are the studio had commitment issues and wasnt prepared to splash its cash to shoot an misguided property consecutive across multiple media platforms. (Its not all series shot back-to-back works out such as the The almighty from the Rings obviously). It is possible that Howard continues shopping the Dark Tower project with other galleries that may greenlight it, but one imagines he may need to compromise, shoot the very first movie and range from there, instead of indulge his initial ambitious plan. "Oblivion" Heres a contented ending finally. Oblivion, a advanced sci-fi love story project directed by Tron: Legacy lensman Frederick Konsinki, was release by Disney in March since the studio felt that this didn't match the Disney brand. Also Disney wanted the film to become launched having a "PG" rating while Konsinki had specific a "PG-13". Fortunately for sci-fi fans, Deadline reported in May that Universal -- the identical ones who broke geek hearts using their decision to pass through on Madness and Dark Tower -- walked directly into finance the film, provided Kosinski will keep your budget around $100 million. Tom Cruise is placed to star (I suppose his schedule is obvious given "Madness"s no-go!) and cameras are going to roll in October. With mega-costly fare like Cowboys & Aliens disappointing in the box office, it's possibly understandable that Hollywood is under keen to invest in films with $200 million prices, unless of course they're proven franchise fare like Pirates, Transformers or Harry Potter. Simultaneously, within the cases of auteurs like del Toro, Howard and today Verbinski, possibly their financial needs are essential to satisfy their motion picture visions, not simply because they only desire to include an extraneous explosion in some places. Film nerds much like me only hope these filmmakers can in some way exercise handles galleries, as Konsinki did, therefore we will have the ability to catch their recognized ambitions about the giant screen, with artistic intents uncompromised. Inform us what you believe within the comments section as well as on Twitter!