Why was The Lone Ranger a box office failure?

At the start of the year, The lone ranger was thought to be a success as it was developed by the same team who made Pirates Of The Caribbean and also stared the family favorite actor Jonny Depp. The Lone Ranger (2013) is based on the comic book by the same name that started in 1936 about a law man (Armie Hammer) who has turned into a masked vigilante, and his spirit warrior Tonto (Jonny Depp) on a quest, but as we can tell from past films staring the actor such as The Rum Diary and Dark Shadows, Depp is not a guaranteed hit maker.

Budgeted at $225 Million, the film suffered nearly being scrapped over the thought of going over budget, but it was the critics that doomed the film to fail, after poor reviews in the US transferring to the EU.

Most of the films problems were in production, the date of the films release was changed to be months apart and the script went through several re-writes to at some point include werewolves (never seen in the comic book) and die hard fans were out raged. Also the film was release not long before such films as the reboot of superman named The Man Of Steel, The long awaited Monsters University and Kick Ass 2, The lone ranger had an awful lot of competition.