I don't want to dwell on Lone Ranger too much because I know it's off topic, but just a couple of things- while the project may not be dead for good, they cancelled a casting call last weekend (after it had only just been announced!) and are reportedly now taking down sets. Even if they can reach a compromise with the budget, it likely won't start on time in Oct. About the werewolves, nobody really knows the full story, but what seems to be shaking out is that 1) the story leak is from an old script that was scrapped a couple of years ago, and 2) most discussion, which I am not sure is based on anything but conjecture, seems to be that there might've been an element of werewolves in more of a sense of Native American spirit guides and such. But it seems there has been an awful lot of press from people who really don't know the true story. The whole thing and how it has been handled has been extremely peculiar, however. This project wasn't one of my favorites so I'm not that broken up about it per se, but the fact that the rug was pulled out like this so close to filming is quite jarring and disturbing. Thank goodness (knock wood) DS production is going about smoothly!
Edit- MB posted while I was writing, and he said some of the same things I just did, but I will post this anyway to confirm what I've heard. Just an addendum, though, werewolves or no werewolves, I think everyone is a little confused about why the budget would be $250M. Does anyone recall if the budget for DS has been discussed? I can't imagine it being near that amount.