"The Lone Ranger" stars Armie Hammer as the masked lawman, Johnny Depp as Tonto, and a white horse named Leroy, from Ogallala, Neb., as the Lone Ranger's extra-smart horse, Silver.

There are a lot of bad things to be said about The Lone Ranger, so not much has been said about the good. One of the good things: the horses who play Silver are tasked with matching Depp, mug for ...

*1/2 (out of four)Dear Johnny Depp,You jam with Keith Richards and have a lifetime “Play whatever quirky character you want” card signed by Tim Burton, but you, in fact, can’t do everything.

As the titular character in Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer, with the help of his buddy Tonto (Johnny Depp), brings masked, white horse-supported, vigilante justice to the Texas ...

Johnny Depp is the trusty sidekick Tonto Armie Hammer portrays the Lone Ranger Depp, Hammer enrolled in Old West boot camp before filming LAMY, N.M. -- Forget about his secondary roles in the ...

Produced at a reported cost of $250 million to produce, "The Lone Ranger" rides into theaters on July 3, 2013. "There's something very wrong with that horse," Depp says at one point in the trailer.

The new Lone Ranger and Tonto rode into Los Angeles in 1980. In 1980, an ex-Tucsonan, ... It became increasingly clear that the new Lone Ranger could not ride a horse.

Machine project: As the Lone Ranger and Tonto, ... “There was a scene where Silver paws at the Lone Ranger,” said Newton. “The horse is trying to get his attention.

The reason "The Lone Ranger" was not titled "Tonto" is simple – in marketing campaigns, familiarity does not breed contempt. But it probably should have been. Few will plunk down their hard ...

In fact, Silver may be a better partner to Depp's erratic, oddball Tonto than the Lone Ranger himself. This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire . About the Author ...

Bob Newton, production coordinator at Creature Effects Inc., likes working with mechanical horses for practical reasons. “You don’t have to clean up after them, and you don’t have to feed ...