Johnny Depp Blames Bad Reviews For Lone Ranger’s Failure

Disney’s Lone Ranger producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp spoke out in an interview today, blaming the entertainment press for killing the film with bad reviews and stories about low expectations.”I think the reviews were written seven to eight months before we released the film,” Depp told Variety. “I think the reviews were written when they heard Gore [Verbinski] and Jerry [Bruckheimer] and me were going to do The Lone Ranger. They had expectations that it must be a blockbuster. I didn’t have any expectations of that. I never do.”[Note: Our review of the film, which was not kind, was written the night before. We promise.]