"They've never talked to me about the 'Lone Ranger,' " Newell said in an MTV interview.
"I know it's there," he said of the "Ranger" property. "The thing that interested me was those two names — George Clooney playing the Lone Ranger and Depp playing Tonto. I thought that was a piece of casting so stuffed with wonderful comic possibilities, I remember saying to my agent, 'Geez, if that's what they want from it, boy would I kill for that.'"
"I think it would make a very, very funny movie if you had Johnny Depp and George Clooney," he said.
head on to MTV for complete article.
Hearing George Clooney's name attached to this send shivers to my bones, I still can't shake out of my head the Batman and Robin fiasco. But hey everybody can be given second chances right? .... *crickets*
-ACCESS out. Godspeed and MABUHAY!