Gore Verbinski is back in the director's chair this week as he helms The Lone Ranger, a project which sees him reunite with Disney.
The film also sees him team up with Johnny Depp, in what is their fifth film project together.
Verbinski kicked off his directing career working on music video, before making the leap into cinema.
The Ritual, a short project, was Verbinski's first film back in 1996, before making his feature length debut a year later with Mousehunt.
The slapstick comedy saw the director team up with Nathan Lane and Lee Evans. The movie followed two men who are desperate to get rid of a mouse from their antique home, but the mouse is equally determined to stay where he is.
Mousehunt was a financial success when it was released as it grossed over $122 million; easily making back its $38 million budget.
Up next was The Mexican with Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, before going on to The Ring. Despite the star power of The Mexican the movie only performed modestly at the box office.
But The Ring, which was a remake of Japanese horror movie Ringu was a global success.
In 2003 he stepped into the big budget blockbuster for the first time with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Curse of the Black Pearl was a risky project for all involved as pirate movies had not been a success at the box office, moreover it was based on a theme park ride.
But with Verbinski at the helm, Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow and Disney behind the project, the movie was a big success.
Taking over $654 million by the end of the film's theatrical run, Curse of the Black Pearl showed that there was a market for the pirate film. Oh yes, and one of the biggest franchises of the last decade was born.
The movie went on to be nominated for five Oscars; including a Best Actor nod for Depp's central performance.
After the blip that was The Weather Man, Verbinski spent the next couple of years working on Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.
And while the movies may not have been as critically praised as Curse of the Black Pearl, they were a box office triumph.
Dead Man's Chest grossed over $1 billion, while At World's End fell just short of repeating that feat.
In 2011 Verbinski turned his hand to animation for the very first time, as he reunited with Depp for Rango.
Rango, voiced by Depp, follows a chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
John Logan penned the screenplay for the film, he had written The Aviator and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He has since gone on to pen the screenplays for Hugo and Skyfall.
The movie was another critical and commercial hit for the director when it hit the big screen. More success would follow as the movie walked away with the Best Animated Film Oscar.
This week Verbinski is back in the director's chair for the first time since that success with Rango.
The Lone Ranger is a fifth movie with Depp, while Armie Hammer, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Wilkinson and Ruth Wilson and William Fichtner are all also on the cast list.
Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
The movie takes the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.
Verbinski has also been linked to Clue, a remake of a movie that is based on the board game Cluedo.
The Lone Ranger is out now.
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