After playing a tourist, a booze-soaked reporter and a gangster, Johnny Depp is back once more where he belongs: in heavy eye makeup. The Lone Ranger trailer only gives a glimpse of the actor in his black-and-white warrior paint as Tonto, sidekick to Armie Hammer's titular character, but from what we can tell, this blockbuster remake of the 1950s TV show will be filled with lots of epic action sequences and, ugh, some totally cringe-y dialogue from Depp ("There come a time, Kimosabe, when good men must wear mask"). Perhaps we'll find out more about Depp's portrayal of Tonto before the movie comes out, but no one considered that maybe including stereotypical depictions of Native Americans from the '1930s (when The Lone Ranger began as a radio show) might not go over so well 80 years later? Also starring Helena Bonham-Carter and directed by Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean director, Gore Verbinski, the film is expected to hit theaters on July 3, 2013. We are so, so curious to see where this goes.
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