Stillborn Franchise: The film's critical thrashing and expensive failure sent the prospects of a 21st century revival of The Lone Ranger for Disney, copyright holder DreamWorks Animation AND future copyright holder Comcast/Universal right over the cliff, though Disney ended up having to foot the writedown for the project (that price tag was much larger than what DWA paid for the company that had a boatload of rights including The Lone Ranger).Just like Depp, his real life controversy wound up ruining his reputation far more than this film ever could. He's since found more success as a character actor in smaller projects. To a lesser extent, the film threatens to derail Armie Hammer's career, compounded by the disappointing box office performance of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Then came the nasty divorce and domestic abuse allegations from Amber Heard. The only other box-office hit he had for the rest of the decade was Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in which his cameo role was kept secret until the press screening. Combined with Transcendence, Mortdecai, and Alice Through the Looking Glass, and many point to this as the tide turning against him, though he got a reprieve as James 'Whitey' Bulger in Black Mass. This was the first chink in Johnny Depp's box-office armor.Star-Derailing Role: This film negatively affected both leading men's careers for several years.Saved from Development Hell: It appeared at one point in time that the film would never be made due to its budget coming in at well over $200 million, in part due to the poor performance of Cowboys & Aliens.Needless to say, don't expect this series to pop up again anytime soon. Franchise Killer: Pretty much did for the Lone Ranger franchise what Batman & Robin did for the Batman series.Johnny Depp was nearly trampled to death by a horse during production. Fake Nationality: The Caucasian Johnny Depp is playing Tonto, who is Native American.

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