For what it's worth, Terry Rossio, the original Lone Ranger screenwriter, denies on his blog that there were *ever* werewolves, there would've been little if any CGI, and while there was some Native American spirituality involved, the net is making up all kinds of stories that have no truth to them.
Stories with no truth to them circulating on the Internet? Unheard of! ... Yeah, right! That should only be the case. But as we know only too well, we need look no further than all the reports that said Depp would be in latest Batman movie (playing a character that isn't even a part of the film, with much of the info coming from Michael Caine no less even after others like Depp, director Christopher Nolan, and WB vehemently denied there was any truth to it) or how that Entertainment Weekly remark that said the DS film would be backburnered in favor of shooting the 4th Pirates first was blown all out of proportion and taken to mean by so many that the DS film was dead for perfect examples of stories with no truth to them taking on lives of their own on the Internet.
That being said, though, it's interesting how reports are backing away from using the word "werewolves" but they're still saying things like "computer-generated scenes involving supernatural sequences" will be eliminated. So in other words, Terry Rossio could be being perfectly truthful when he denies werewolves were ever a part of the script if in his mind there were always going to be skinwalkers, which aren't werewolves per se, though many associate them with werewolves, which is no doubt why saying there were werewolves in the film probably spread like wildfire. Werewolves resonate with a lot more people than skinwalkers might.
And as for Rossio's remark about little CGI, perhaps they were going to go with the traditional look of wolf pelts over the bodies of the skinwalkers along with some types of makeup effects. Though I suppose we'll never know the real story considering that that whole part of the plot has been dropped...
But anyway, according to the following article from the LA Times, things seem to be looking better for
Lone Ranger - and it even has a paragraph that includes a quote from Depp and a mention of how he's currently shooting DS, so I don't feel all that bad about including a link to it.
Lone Ranger may get back in the saddle soon266 days 8 hours 17 minutes 30 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!