TOLDJA! Verbinski Helming 'The Lone Ranger'

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By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday November 23, 2010 (*at*) 1:50pm EST

Gore Verbinski In Talks To Reteam With Johnny Depp On 'Lone Ranger'

EXCLUSIVE: When we last left this project, Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3 director Gore Verbinski was getting serious about saddling up for The Lone Ranger, the Disney pic that has Jerry Bruckheimer producing with Johnny Depp playing Tonto. Now we've learned that Disney just locked in the helmer. Still no word on when the film will begin production or who'll play The Lone Ranger. Verbinski had been looking around for his next job after completing his first animated film as a director in Rango, which Paramount Pictures distributes next year. (Depp, of course, voiced the goggle-eyed title lizard.) Verbinski is repped by CAA.

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Jon Hamm woudl be a great Lone Ranger.