9:00AM STV | With infidel Mickey Mouse still in hiding after last week’s
death-sentence fatwa, Disney appears to be rolling the dice on a bold rebranding of sorts. Behold — Disney Depp (née Johnny), whose anchoring of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise yielded yesterday’s news of not only Pirates 4, but also the star’s attachment as Tim Burton’s Mad Hatter in a live-action Alice in Wonderland and as Tonto in a revival of The Lone Ranger. The announcement was made Wednesday in Disney’s marathon State of the Mouse Biennial, putting its jittery investors at ease, its fans in an uproar and the press into some kind of overwhelmed coma. Johhny Depp? As Tonto? In
Josh Groban’s incredulous words, “Really?!”
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