Lone Ranger Pictures

LaBeouf and Redford Team Up, 'Lone Ranger' has a Villain and Diesel Offers ...

Voltage Pictures and Wildwood Enterprises have cast Shia LaBeouf and Robert Redford in the political action thriller, The Company You Keep with Redford set to direct from a script by Lem Dobbs ( Haywire , The Limey , Dark City ), based on the novel by Neil Gordon . The film chronicles the story of a former Weather Underground militant wanted by the FBI for 30 years, who must go on the run when his true identity is exposed by a young, ambitious reporter hell-bent on making a name for himself. Redford plays the former radical at the center of this nationwide manhunt and LaBeouf, the determined journalist doggedly chasing him and his story. The picture is currently in pre-production and is set to film in Vancouver in September.

Open Road Films has acquired Joe Carnahan 's The Grey starring Liam Neeson as the leader of a group of oil-rig roughnecks who are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra after their plane experiences a complete mechanical failure and crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. The survivors, battling mortal injuries, biting cold and ravenous hunger, are relentlessly hunted and pursued by a vicious pack of rogue wolves. Rumor has it this could be a late year Oscar contender and I wouldn't be surprised to see it debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and perhaps make some award season waves.

Dwight Yoakam , Barry Pepper and Helena Bonham Carter are all in talks to join Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger with Yoakam poised to play the film's villain. The trio would join Armie Hammer as the title character and Johnny Depp as Tonto in a story that follows the two heroes as they look to take down the Cavendish gang after they attack the Texas Rangers (I'm assuming they're not talking about the baseball team). Tom Wilkinson and Ruth Wilson also star.

Yoakam would play Butch Cavendish, leader of the Cavendish gang and the pic's primary villain, while Pepper would play Captain J. Fuller, the leader of the seventh cavalry. Carter is still in early discussions but if a deal closes, she would play the colorful madam of a local brothel. Filming is expected to begin this fall for a December 21, 2012 release.

Walt Disney Pictures Now Casting The Lone Ranger,Jerry Bruckheimer ...

Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Walt Disney Pictures are gearing up for an October, 2011 filming start date on the feature film “Lone Ranger” starring Armie Hammer as The Lone Ranger, and Johnny Depp as Tonto. The film’s main stars are being cast in Los Angeles , and smaller speaking roles, extras, stand-ins, and photo-doubles for the film’s stars are being cast in New Mexico and Texas, where shooting will take place.