‘Lone Ranger’ Logo Revealed
ProducerJerry Bruckheimerrevealed the official logo for Walt Disney Pictures’Lone Rangeron hisnew official website. Hit the jump to see the full logo.
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Pirates of the Caribbeantrilogy directorGore Verbinskiis signed to direct, reteaming withJohnny Depp. No word yet on who’ll play the Lone Ranger; Johnny Depp is set to play Tonto, the native warrior who finds the wounded ranger and keeps him alive.
The project was initiallyannouncedin 2007, with producerJerry Bruckheimerand Pirates of the Caribbean/Shrek screenwritersTed ElliottandTerry Rossiopenning the script. A year later, in 2008, it wasrevealedthat Johnny Depp had been cast as Tonto, and George Clooney wasrumoredto be in talks to play the title character. Last summer it wasrumoredthatMike Newell(Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Donnie Brasco, Prince of Persia) was in talks to direct, which clearly isn’t happening now. And in February, the mouse house hiredJustin Haythe, who adaptedRevolutionary Road, to pen a draft. Haythe was most recently working with Walt Disney Pictures on McG’s20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemobefore a recent change in staff put the project in turnaround.
Adapted from the 1930’s radio show, which later became a popular live-action television show in the 1950’s.The Lone Rangeris 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 titledThe Legend of the Lone Rangerand a 2003 WB television movie/pilot, both of which were not well accepted.
