Gore Verbinski on Re-Animating the Wild West
Coming Soon Says:
Even with radical shifts in filmmaking style throughout a resume that includes Mousehunt, The Ring, The Weather Man and three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, it's hard to pinpoint the kind of schizoid creativity that gave birth to the weird, wonderful western world of Rango.
The story of a nameless chameleon lost in the desert (voiced by Johnny Depp) who stumbles into a Western town in crisis and reinvents himself as the town's hero, Rango, the film pays tribute to all manner of storytelling, eclectically nodding to (among a great many other things) the works of Hunter S. Thompson, Roman Polanski, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Sergio Leone.
