aug 7, 2013 - THE ATLANTIC The Three Stages of Accepting That You Killed 'The Lone Ranger'

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Johnny Depp blames the media for ruining The Lone Ranger. Not the controversy surrounding Tonto. Not the massive budget. And definitely not the fact that it wasn't very good. As Stuart Oldham at Variety explained, Depp, along with costar Armie Hammer, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, blames their flop, and the $190 million Disney could potentially lose, on the media's crass need to "slit the jugular" of the movie. And if you're a journalist reading this now, you — sorry, we — should just accept the fact that he's right. We killed The Lone Ranger. We smothered it before it even sucked in its first breath of life, before it even had a chance.

Ever since Depp and the gang uttered that cold hard truth, the media has been reacting, going through three critical stages as it comes to terms with what it's done.

SOURCE:
US VA Amber Heard Exhibit 14 - Article
"The Three Stages of Accepting That You
Killed 'The Lone Ranger,"' 8/7/13

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