Jerry Bruckheimer Revamps The Lone Ranger

Published: October 23, 2007, 4:24 pm

Tags: western, disney pixar, action adventure, rumors, screenwriting, jerry bruckheimer, ted elliot, terry rossio, the lone ranger

And who said the Western wasn’t making a comeback? The writing team behind Pirates of the Caribbean (yes, the whole series, not just the first movie) have reteamed with super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer for The Lone Ranger. Adapted from the 1930’s radio show, which later became a popular live-action television show in the 1950’s. The Lone Ranger is a masked Texas Ranger in the American Old West, who gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever and laconic American Indian sidekick called Tonto, and his horse Silver. He would famously say “Hi-yo Silver, away!” to get the horse to gallop. Hollywood has tried to remake the Lone Ranger twice now, a 1981 film titled The Legend of the Lone Ranger and a 2003 WB television movie/pilot, both of which were not well accepted. Disney won’t confirm the project (of course) but Entertainment Weekly says that Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot are “trying to create a new juggernaut for

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