Production on
The Lone Ranger was canceled months ago due to budgetary concerns. But we recently heard that the movie was back on with Gore Verbinski still in the director's chair. Johnny Depp, who is set to play Tonto, was interviewed by Larry King on
CNN this weekend, and said that their version of the movie has quite a bit of humor:
“There is a script, it’s a very funny, good script…there’s a boatload of humor.”
“What I like about Tonto is the idea that this character who is thought of as ‘the sidekick’—that’s the thing that always bugged me about The Lone Ranger is ‘Well why is the Indian the sidekick? Why does he have to go get you that thing?’ And I couldn’t stand that always. My approach to Tonto is that there’s this crazy like a fox stoicism to Tonto that Tonto probably believes that The Lone Ranger is his slave, his sidekick. So it’s like ‘Go get me the thing,’ ‘No, no, no you go get it. You’re the one dressed in the funny outfit, you go do it.’”
“What I like about Tonto, what I feel good about Tonto is that I feel like he’s—you know when I came up with Captain Jack I thought ‘Okay I’ve really arrived at something different here,’ and Tonto feels right on par with Captain Jack, it feels like another Captain Jack to me.”
Directed by Gore Verbinski, and with a cast that includes Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp,
The Lone Ranger is now set to hit theaters on May 31, 2013!