Random: This can't end well ...

[nebroadwe]

Unless Jerry Bruckheimer is having us all on, he's hired Johnny Depp to play Tonto in his upcoming Lone Ranger movie.

Johnny Depp. Tonto.

Johnny Depp. Tonto.

I'd ask, "What were they thinking?" (and, possibly, "Doesn't anybody involved with the production talk to M. Night Shyamalan?") except, well ...

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[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

Well, Depp does have Cherokee ancestry in his background from a great-grandmother, so it's not as if he has no Native American ancestry.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot about her, too, if this production makes it any further out of development hell, but when even the 1950's t.v. serial hired Jay Silverheels ... I just don't think they're going to get much traction that way. (Not that it will matter, probably. Johnny Depp is bankable; end of discussion.)