Tonto

Tonto is the Native-American partner of the Lone Ranger. He is from the Potawatomi tribe.

Even if Johnny Depp hadn't made some rather boneheaded comments about his intentions in bringing back Tonto, the American Indian sidekick.

No longer simply the sidekick, Tonto gets top billing in Disneyâ??s extravagant Lone Ranger reboot, which partners a heavily face-painted Johnny Depp with the blandly handsome Armie Hammer.

Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson. Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.

The Lone Ranger is a 2013 American action western film directed by Gore Verbinski from a screenplay written by Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio.

Director Gore Verbinski's take on the Lone Ranger is a gigantic picture with an earnest, klutzy, deeply un-cool hero (Armie Hammer of "The Social Network"), based on a property that most young viewers don't know or care about. The film's poster might as well have been a target. It's lumpy bubblegum with a bitter aftertaste, as obsessive and overbearing as Steven Spielberg's "1941"-and as likely to be re-evaluated twenty years later and described as "misunderstood."

Johnny Depp says Tonto is his salute to Native Americans | The Lone Ranger from BlackTreeTV.