‘Hi-yo Silver and Away!”

March 28th, 2008 in Action, Adventure, Movie News, remakes

“The Longer,” once again, will return to the big screen. A 1930s radio show that led to very popular movie serials, television show, comic strips, toys, novels and more gets resurrected by the “Pirates of the Caribbean” team for Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

According to Hollywood Reporter, The 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.Remakes have been worked on in the past without the predecessors’ success. As explained by Hollywood Reporter: “Ranger” has not enjoyed success in modern times. The character’s most recent shot at the big screen, 1981’s “The Legend of the Lone Ranger,” failed so badly that the film’s star, Klinton Spilsbury, never worked in Hollywood again. In 2003, WB Network aired a TV movie that served as a backdoor pilot, but it also bit the dust.

Part of the problems are the character’s tropes — wearing a mask, using only silver bullets, a creed that includes not killing your fellow man, the exclamation “Hi-yo Silver, away!” — which can seem musty to today’s audiences.

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