During an interview with Larry King on CNN, Johnny Depp discussed the script and the upcoming “Lone Ranger” project.

“There is a script, it’s a very funny, good script…there’s a boatload of humor.”

Depp also talked about his approach to the character of Tonto and how the film will eschew the conventional “sidekick” role:

“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.’”

While the story of how Depp invented his Pirates character Jack Sparrow is now the thing of Hollywood legend, it appears that he’s got something special up his sleeve for Tonto as well:

“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.”

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2011/larryking/

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