{"id":118,"date":"2007-10-25T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2018-12-08T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:04:28","slug":"lone-ranger-getting-ready-to-ride-range-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/25\/lone-ranger-getting-ready-to-ride-range-again\/","title":{"rendered":"LONE RANGER Getting Ready To Ride Range Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> is reporting that the <strong>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/strong> trilogy scripting duo of Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot are currently developing a new screenplay to bring iconic western hero The Lone Ranger back to the silver screen. <strong>Pirates<\/strong> producer Jerry Bruckheimer is reportedly the man in charge of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The character originated on radio in the 1930s and made a successfully translation to television in the 1950s with Clayton Moore in the title role. Unfortunately, the last two attempts at reviving the character \u2013 1981\u2019s <strong>The Legend Of the Lone Ranger<\/strong> and the 2003 TV movie\/series pilot <em>The Lone Ranger<\/em> featuring himbo Chad Michael Murray \u2013 flopped badly.<\/p>\n<p>While trying to not don a tinfoil hat, I find the timing of this revival attempt a bit interesting. Created by Fran Striker, the Lone Ranger was later revealed to be the grand uncle of another Striker creation- the 1930s crimefighter The Green Hornet, a character who is currently being developed by actor\/writer Seth Rogen for a big screen adventure for Summer 2009 for Columbia Pictures. Is Bruckheimer trying to create some cross-franchise synergy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy scripting duo of Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot are currently developing a new screenplay to bring iconic western hero The Lone Ranger back to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/25\/lone-ranger-getting-ready-to-ride-range-again\/\" title=\"LONE RANGER Getting Ready To Ride Range Again?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[22,8],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-in-development","8":"tag-remake"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}