Movie Make-out

Coming Soon has compiled a slew of reports on Johnny Depp’s slate: he’s returning as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (which earlier reports — rumors, really — have said will be free of Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley), he’s definitely playing the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (which we’ve already heard about, but it’s official now), and he’s signed on to play Tonto in a redo of The Lone Ranger — an origin story, scripted by Pirates screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio.

Depp’s 1/4 Cherokee, but I sort of wish they’d gone full-blood on this. Ah well. The real question, then, is who’s the Lone Ranger?! Hopefully somebody who will have some real screen presence opposite Depp, unlike Bloom.

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