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New Lone Ranger DVDs: Classic Media is bringing the first two seasons of "The
Lone Ranger" in a 13-disk, digitally re-mastered DVD set with an 88-page book,
complete episode guide and many other extras. The set will retail for $119 and is
due out in November. Pictured above are parts of the press kit they sent to us. Just
click on an image to enlarge it.

New Lone Ranger movies: This news comes from MTV News: “Hi-Ho Silver,
away!”
A modern movie hero who doesn’t curse, doesn’t use slang, who doesn’t drink or
smoke or visit saloons, who believes in God and country and a strict moral code,
who only uses guns when he has to, and even then never shoots to kill? The
American West is about to get a dose of reserved cowboy justice, as super
producer Jerry Bruckheimer has confirmed to MTV News that he’s developing a
“Lone Ranger” series of films.
“It’s being written, well it’s not being written now, but it’s about to be written,” he
said of the rumored project. “We were just working out the story before the strike
and hopefully that will end soon and we can continue on.”
We, in this case, means “Pirates of the Caribbean” writers Ted Elliott and Terry
Rossio. But don’t think that means the titular hero will be anything like Captain
Jack, cautions Bruckheimer, who revealed that the story wouldn’t be an update, but
instead something of an origin story. That means adhering to the strict moral code
laid down by “Lone Ranger” creator Fran Striker.
“I wouldn’t say it’s an updating of the tale, I would say it’s kind of getting back to the
roots of the tale,” Bruckheimer confessed. “Where it originated from — it’s about
Texas Rangers, so we’re going to take it to how the characters are created.”
It would be a somewhat fitting next step for Bruckheimer and crew, considering that
fifteen years ago the two genres that were universally acknowledged to be dead
were pirate movies and westerns. When you’ve conquered one, why not go for the
other?
On the future of that first lucrative franchise, meanwhile, Bruckheimer said the time
isn’t yet right to discuss “Pirates 4.”
“Not yet, not yet,” he said, smiling. “We’re still counting the money from the last
one!”
TM