Where Does 'The Lone Ranger' Rank In List Of Biggest Movie Flops?
Ok, so by now everyone's well aware that Jerry Buckheimer and Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger is a monumental flop - a serious disaster that could cost Disney $150 million. The Johnny Depp-Armie Hammer starring western took just $48.9 million over the usually lucrative five-day Independence Day weekend - leaving it miles from its $175 million marketing budget, not to mention its $250 million production costs.
Another unfortunate member of the flop club is - surprise, surprise - a western. This time, 1980's Heaven's Gate starring Christopher Walken and Jeff Bridges. The movie cost £44 million to make, though made back just $3.4 million at box-office. That was a loss of $40 million - which, with inflation, is a net loss of $112 million. Ouch.
Now, we know the majority of you haven't seen Speed Racer. Nobody saw Speed Racer, the 2008 action movie written and directed by The Wachowskis. An adaptation of the 1960s anime series of the same name, starring Christian Ricci, John Goodman and Susan Surandon, the movie was a terrible, terrible thing. It cost a huge $200 million to make, made $93 million at the box-office for an net loss of $113 million.
A lot of people saw Sahara - just not enough. You've probably seen Sahara on a DVD you bought for $2, or on TV. The Matthew Mcconaughey starring action-adventure from director Breck Eisner came attached with a $241 million price-tag, though made just $119 million at the box-office for an incredible of $143 million.
Climbing further up the list of flops, we have The Adventures of Pluto Nash. We're gonna throw two numbers at you now. $120 million and $7 million. You know what we're talking about.
Which brings us onto Cutthroat Island, the 1995 movie considered to be the biggest financial flop in cinema history. A bloated horror story of a movie, Cutthroat starred Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella and cost $115 million to make - in 1995. Turns out, nobody wanted to watch a pirate film starring Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella and it made just $18 million for a dramatic loss of $145 million in today's cash.
So, you know what we're about to say. Should the Lone Ranger lose Disney $150 million, it would canter into the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest movie flop of all time. The studio has already begun taking pre-orders on DVD and Blu-Rays in a bid to recoup its losses - they just better hope that people are dumb enough to watch this stuff at home.