I think a while ago they were saying they want Clooney for the Ranger. Clooney/Depp is a potentially inspired pairing.

If Depp is playing Tonto, they might as well retitle the movie Tonto and the Lone Ranger, cuz there's no way Depp is being given less screen time.

damn you just beat me. Oh well cool find @ED

@stopdropandroll - i think Depp would definitely give up screen time for a role he wanted and a price he liked... who wouldn't?

@Mstargel. I think that's true about Depp. My comment is directed more at the producers/studio and director of the movie wanting him to have the greater screen role and not Depp himself.

They would have to get a big name actor to place alongside him. At least that would give equal screen time.

Tonto should be portrayed similar to Marc Dacascos' character in Brotherhood of the Wolf.That would be cool.

About 1:12.

WHOAH...

I've just found out i09.com used the GRIFF THE INVISIBLE pics and stuff I did in an article, thats pretty cool lol! ; p

Nice vid @ TAZ!

SolidSnake007 @ DEPP's an awesome actor! ; D

Yeah not for TONTO though?

idk i see him as tonto a little idk if he will be great..i think he is an amazin actor but horrible, manipulative person

i confirm tazmaniak 's comment!
Depp needs to just step the [frick] back and do fewer things. the market is getting saturated with deppness.

who would be the lone ranger? chris pine??

Sorry, that was the poster. Here's the link to the first issue of the comic book. http://www.dynamiteentertainment.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C105309

Here's a thought: maybe Tonto should be played by an ACTUAL NATIVE AMERICAN! I don't know who is out there now but sticking every good white guy actor in a film is not always the best idea. Wes Studi and Graham Greene are great actors and I'm sure there are more Native American Actors waiting that have not gotten their chance. Also, he is too old. The point of the Lone Ranger is that he was a young man eager to join the Texas Rangers and they all get slaughtered and Tonto saves him. They were not almost 50 years old and Tonto was not white.

he's WAY to old to be tonto

I don't know how I feel about this. I am a big Lone Ranger fan, and I love the comic by Dynamite, and I always wanted to make a Lone Ranger film myself.

I like Verbinski, and he did a good job on the Pirates series, but I want him to move on from theses kinds of films. I don't want Lone Ranger to fell like Pirates of the Carribean in the west. They should be done diffrent, and I wish they would get a diffrent director to bring a diffrent take to the genre and characters.
I would have loved to have seen this film directed by...
Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, the Boxer, Brothers),
Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding)
Rian Johnson (Brick, the Brothers Bloom)
Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Finding Neverland, Monster Ball, Stranger then Fiction)


Any of theses directors should be interesting choices to helm a big summer western blockbuster, mainly because they are directors known for their character moments and would each bring diffrent ideas and takes to the series, and not the same thing we have seen. Give us something unexpected.

I like the idea of Johnny Depp playing Tonto, espically if they model him after him in the Dynamite comic, and cool to see him as the sidekick. Hopefully he doesn't overshadow the hero, and this is very much like the first Superman movie, with big names in the supporting roles and give them more dimmension.

As for the Lone Ranger himself, I would love to see James Roday, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matt Smith, Zachary Levi, or George Clooney, because all of theses actors have potential and charm, but also can bring us a new kind of hero, and would be great to see any of them in a big blockbuster.

I just really want to see the Lone Ranger done well and the comic is so incredible, and the old show has such a charm to it and a movie has a lot of potential.

Tanto...thank goodness. Depp as the Lone Ranger would have been a huge fail.

This movie needs to be made, NOW!

are you fukin kiddin me? DEPP as TONTO? thats like casting Brad Pitt as the lead in a Bruce Lee Bio pic. I like Depp as an actor but TONTO is a pure bred native american not a half breed theyre gonna set films back 50 yrs if they cast him they ARE a lot of native american actors that would make a great TONTO heck u can even cast an unknown as the RANGERS partner. But dont give DEPP the role and besides its called The Lone Ranger if hes cast it will take attention away form the lead which is not cool.

I have to echo many others here. Depp is an excellent actor but it is a sad day that he is cast for a role that should go to an actual Native American...not someone who has some Cherokee blood in him. Hell, I would qualify then. Add in the age factor... uggh. I grew up watching the Lone Ranger and this disappoints me more than any other casting out there. The role should go to an Eddie Spears or Adam Beach. :-(

hmmm... interesting but idk...

i swear he was stil in Hawaii shooting Pirates of the Carabeain

I call shenanigans on the whole idea of casting Depp in a role that should go to a full-blooded American Indian. Is this casting meant to infer that there are no talented Indian actors in the world? I can't believe that. Find me any reasonably-sized group of people and there will be at least a few of them with acting talent. If the ranks of qualified Indian actors are too thin, put out a casting call and find an unknown. The perfect Tonto is out there, but Depp ain't it.

Besides, Tonto is not the quirky eccentric that Depp likes to play, nor is he the main focus of the story. I can't see Depp willing to be the sidekick while someone else is getting all the attention, all the lines, and all the screen time.