Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Peter Berg and Taylor Kitsch plan their own Navy SEALs film… Armie Hammer is officially the Lone Ranger… the final week of Oprah will be a star-studded event… and more ahead.

· Fresh off walking the red carpet at Cannes on Tuesday, it seems that Mel Gibson is firmly in comeback mode. Variety reports that the embattled star may join the cast of Sleight of Hand, a heist comedy that already has one of the most random casts ever assembled. If an agreement is reached, Gibson would join Kiefer Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu, Thomas Jane and Jon Lovitz in the film. [Variety]

· Taylor Kitsch and Peter Berg are turning into the Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio of meaty action. Following their work together on Battleship (and in the less explosive but just as meaty Friday Night Lights), Kitsch and Berg may team-up again for Lone Survivor. Based on the book by Marcus Luttrell, Survivor follows four Navy SEALs who were captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2005 while on a mission to kill a terrorist leader. Per Deadline, Berg has asked Kitsch — who will also play a Navy SEAL in Savages for Oliver Stone — to take a lead role, while the other three captured SEALs have yet to be cast. Filming is scheduled to begin shooting in January. [Deadline]

· The “I”s and “T”s are dotted and crossed: Armie Hammer is officially locked down to co-star opposite Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger. [Variety]

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