Source: KOB.com

The shooting starts in February for the long-awaited Lone Ranger movie starring Johnny Depp as Tonto, a project that once appeared to be doomed.

On Friday, Gov. Susana Martinez announced the movie will begin production in New Mexico.

“The Lone Ranger is proof New Mexico’s film industry is alive and well,” she said.

At one point the movie’s producers threatened to shoot it in Louisiana, when Martinez called for cutbacks in the state’s sweet rebate deal for the film industry.

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