Jerry Bruckheimer Films has debuted a logo for the upcoming adaptation of The Lone Ranger.
The tagline on the site reads, “The Legend Returns.”
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski has been hired to adapted the classic TV show film adaption for the big screen, and Johnny Depp is attached to play Tonto, the Lone Ranger's sidekick. There's still no word on who will play the Lone Ranger, but at one point George Clooney was rumored to be in talks.
Originally created as a radio play in 1933 by George W. Trendle and developed by Fran Striker, the last big screen iteration of the character was in 1981 with The Legend of the Lone Ranger, directed by the late William A. Fraker.
The character gained widespread notoriety between 1949 and 1957 on ABC television, as Clayton Moore donned the mask each week to fight crime and corruption in the old west.
The Lone Ranger's origin story begins with a group of Texas Rangers chasing down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish. The gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
The Lone Ranger is in development for a tentative 2012 release date. [source: JBFilms]
