Justin Haythe, who penned the deep-dish adaptation of Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, is set to write the screenplay for The Lone Ranger for Disney.  Action film specialist Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the film and Johnny Depp has signed on to play Tonto in the movie (see “Depp Does Burton’s Alice”).

Writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rosio, who worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean films, wrote an early draft of The Lone Ranger (see “Lone Ranger Update in the Works”).  According to The Hollywood Reporter the announcement that Haythe is writing the film “could indicate that the franchise potential of the material is a high priority for the new Disney regime,” something that would be good news for Dynamite, which publishes a comic book adaptation of the 1930s radio show that has found considerable success in other media.