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Johnny Depp The Next Tonto

Maybe he'll call it "Tonto's Revenge"?

Depp, who is developing the movie version with his “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski, wants someone other than the guy wearing a white hat calling the shots.

"I remember watching it as a kid, with Jay Silverheels and Clayton Moore, and going: 'Why is the frekkin Lone Ranger telling Tonto what to do?'" Depp told Entertainment Weekly about the durable black & white Western TV series that ran in reruns well through the 70s.

"I liked Tonto, even at that tender age, and knew Tonto was getting the unpleasant end of the stick here.”

While the tale of the Texas Ranger and his trusty Native American sidekick Tonto has endured on radio and TV movies for the better part of a century, Depp is determined to reverse the duo’s power dynamic.

“When the idea came up (for the movie), I started thinking about Tonto and what could be done in my own small way try to–'eliminate' isn't possible–but reinvent the relationship," Depp said. "To attempt to take some of the ugliness thrown on the Native Americans, not only in ‘The Lone Ranger,’ but the way Indians were treated throughout history of cinema, and turn it on its head."

Tonto’s less than respectful treatment from the Masked Man particularly irked Depp because of his own ancestry.

“I guess I have some Native American somewhere down the line,” he said. “My great grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian. Makes sense in terms of coming from Kentucky, which is rife with Cherokee and Creek.”

Depp even believes that his Native American blood helped to shape his own mercurial personality. “(When you) go back and read the great books, Dee Brown’s 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee' or (John Ehle's) 'Trail of Tears,' you have to think, somewhere along the line, I’m the product of some horrific rape," he said. "You just have that little sliver in your chemical makeup.”

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