9h 49min, sep 1, 2011 y - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Why Disney Might Make ‘The Lone Ranger’ — Reluctantly (Analysis)

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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski may be calling Disney's bluff by agreeing to a rigid $215 million budget.

It appears that the Disney studio may be getting cornered into pulling the trigger on The Lone Ranger.

When word surfaced a couple of weeks ago that Disney was demanding budget reductions on the costly and risky Johnny Depp movie, some in the industry assumed the worst. “The Lone Ranger is going to die,” a leading agent declared flatly at the time. Indeed, it looked like the studio was going through the motions before pulling the plug.

Now it seems producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski may be calling Disney’s bluff by agreeing to what a source involved with the project describes as a rigid $215 million budget set by the studio. This source allows that Disney has “a bit of ambivalence” about going forward but adds, “They’re going to live with what they said. They’re not going to renege.”

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