The LONE RANGER Rides Again
"Hi-ho Silver!" Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films are looking to bring The Lone Ranger back to the big screen.
Writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio ("Pirates of the Caribbean") are currently negotiating to write the live-action Lone Ranger adaptation.
Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films will also work in association with Entertainment Rights with Bruckheimer producing. Bruckheimer Films' Mike Stenson and Chad Oman are executive producing while Jason Reed is overseeing at Disney.
The Lone Ranger which made his start during the days of radio follows a young Texas Ranger who was the only survivor of an ambush lead by Buth Cavendish. The Ranger is saved by an American Indian named Tonto, and donning a mask and riding a horse named Silver they team up to bring the gang to justice.
The Lone Ranger last hit the screens in 1981 with "The Legend of the Lone Ranger," which was not well received and a TV pilot movie in 2003 failed to take off. Though The Lone Ranger has found an audience recently with a new comic book series from Dynamite Entertainment.
Writers Rossio and Elliott have made their mark resurrecting classic characters as noted by their work on "The Mark of Zorro."