Back in August, it looked like Disney’s big plan to make a film version of The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer and director Gore Verbinski might never happen, since the studio had

Disney has shut down production of The Lone Ranger, its ambitious retelling of the classic western that was to star Johnny Depp.

Helena Bonham Carter, Dwight Yoakam and Barry Pepper are in talks to join the growing cast of Disney’s The Lone Ranger.

Update: No burn this time. According to the LA Times, Hammer will be the masked man of the title to work alongside Johnny Depp's Tonto.

Perhaps surprisingly for a man who has been fairly happy to stay in Indie-land for the majority of his career to date (aside from the odd mainstream entry such as Remember the Titans and Murder by

Sing with us kids: Gore-and-Joh-nny-sit-ing-on-a-set. F-i-l-m-m-a-k…. Oh, forget it.

It's not the most obvious match-up in the world, but the pairing of Revolutionary Road screenwriter Justin Haythe and producer Jerry Bruckheimer for The Lone Ranger sounds rather interesting to us,