James Badge Dale Might Get To Play THE LONE RANGER’s Older Brother

I met The Pacific actor James Badge Dale (Shame) last week at the press day for The Grey, cool fella, too bad I forgot to ask him about the rumor of him trying out to get the role of John McLane Jr. in A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD but I think that possibility is out the window now because Deadline said Dale is now the frontrunner to play the older brother of Armie Hammer‘s masked hero character in Disney THE LONE RANGER, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Johnny Depp as Tonto…

THE LONE RANGER

“Left for dead for dead in an ambush with five other Texas Rangers, lawman John Reid survives and is nursed back to health by an Indian scout named Tonto. He then dons a mask to avenge the murders of his comrades and to foil evil doers, never accepting payment for his services. His gratis vigilantism is made possible by the silver mine he inherits from one of his slain brothers – the same mine that affords him an endless supply of his trademark silver bullets.”

Starring Armie Hammer as the masked hero and Johnny Depp as the sidekick Tonto.
Tom Wilkinson will play Latham Cole, the villainous railroad tycoon in the oldwest who plays a prominent role in the story.
James Frain will play a tough foreman overseeing Chinese and Indian rail workers who works for Latham Cole.
Ruth Wilson will play Rebecca.
Dwight Yoakam will play play Butch Cavendish, leader of the Cavendish gang
Barry Pepper would play Captain J. Fuller, the leader of the seventh cavalry.
James Badge Dale will play Dan Reid, the Lone Ranger’s older brother and leader of the Texas Rangers.
Helena Bonham Carter, (who’s worked with Depp countless times before) is in talks to play the colorful madam of a local brothel.
To be directed by Gore Verbinski.
Production will start this fall.
THE LONE RANGER will open in theaters on May 31st, 2013

Gore Verbinski will direct from a script by Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio.
The project is brought to you by super producer Jerry Bruckheimer and production will start February 2012

Based on the 1933 radio show and the 50s popular TV series, THE LONE RANGER. Depp previously implied that his character, though a sidekick, would be as significant as the lead in the movie, just like The Green Hornet movie this past January that showed us that Kato was as much a lead star as Britt Reid. In a separate interview, Depp also emphasized once again that this movie will reinvent the relationship between Lone Ranger and Tonto..

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.”