Actor Johnny Depp had such a positive experience filming “The Tourist” with co-star Angelina Jolie, he is now interested in teaming up with Jolie’s partner Brad Pitt, Entertainment Tonight reported Wednesday.
Depp threw Pitt’s name in the mix to play the lead role in “The Lone Ranger” remake — in which Depp will play the role of Tonto. “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski signed on as the director for the Disney project set for release in 2012.
“There’s so many interesting possibilities out there,” Depp, 44, told the entertainment TV program. “Brad [Pitt] would be great. [George] Clooney would be great. Don’t know who it’s going to be just yet.”
Depp, whose grandfather is Cherokee, is deeply committed to the project and particularly to the way Native Americans are portrayed.
“Native Americans in cinema, over the past however many decades, have been treated somewhat shabbily,” he said.
“This one has plans to rectify that,” he added about the new version of the classic Western film and TV show.