Ryan Gosling In The Mix For Disney’s ‘Lone Ranger’

COMMENTS (15)

• Depp as Tonto? What are they thinking? There are many Native Americans who can play this role! This is like when Mickey Rooney played a Japanese. Sad.

  Comment by Tj — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 5:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • yes because mickey rooney and johnny depp are equatable character actors.

    by the way love the same 5 people making the same 5 comments about the godless horror of johnny playing tonto on every single LR post in the history of this blog.

    Comment by kemosabe — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 5:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • If that’s an insult against Mickey Rooney it’s misplaced. Rooney’s history in Hollywood is fairly obvious. His casting as a Japanese (not to mention the way he played the part) was to say the least insensitive, right up there with casting Marlon Brando as an Okinawan in “Tea House of the August Moon.”

      Now it may be that Johnny Depp is part native American as someone else mentions. The thing is that there are many native American actors whose ancestry is a lot more obvious who are better suited to playing this part – Adam Beach comes to mind immediately. Indeed Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto in the TV version of The Lone Ranger, helped to establish the American Indian Actors Workshop, with the goal of encouraging directors and producers to hire native Americans to play native American roles.

      Comment by Brent — Saturday April 16, 2011 @ 1:24am PDT  Reply to this post

  • don’t blog ever again

    Comment by baby jesus — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 11:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Uhhh, Depp is part native american…

  Comment by sosgemini — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 5:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Ryan is wrong, it would be the boring ranger with him in the lead. Go with unknowns and make the script and the title the star and thus creating new stars.

  Comment by oops — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 6:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • They did that the last time. Remember Klinton Spilsbury?

    Comment by ari — Saturday April 16, 2011 @ 8:37am PDT  Reply to this post

• JON HAMM as The Lone Ranger…he was born to play that part!

  Comment by MM Fan — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 7:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I can’t imagine a tentpole more boring than this. Perhaps I lack imagination, but this just doesn’t say sure fire franchise to me.

  Comment by mde — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 9:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I agree. I just don’t get the thinking behind resuscitating this corny old series. Was anybody waiting for the Lone Ranger to be re-made?

    Comment by Hobbled — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 11:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I second that. John Hamm all the way

  Comment by PortmansDanceDouble — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 10:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Well Jon Hamm might be good too

  Comment by PortmansDanceDouble — Friday April 15, 2011 @ 10:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fu-k yes, JON HAMM!!

  Comment by uninonguy — Saturday April 16, 2011 @ 5:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s an “origin story”–Hamm is too old; unfortuante that he is getting pushed out of a lot of ideal roles because of age

  Comment by nikki — Saturday April 16, 2011 @ 1:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Lone Ranger? In 2011? This story died of old age 60 years ago.

  Comment by Mark — Monday April 18, 2011 @ 2:42am PDT  Reply to this post