“I think it’s going to be good, when we have a chance to put it up on its feet,” says Depp, who says part of his goal is to correct the way in which Native Americans are played in Hollywood. "It’s a real opportunity for me to give a salute to them. Tonto was a sidekick in all the Lone Ranger series. [This film] is a very different approach to that partnership. And a funny one I think.”
It would seem that Lone Ranger will shoot after Depp shoots Dark Shadows with Tim Burton and possibly before production starts on Pirates of the Caribbean V.