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Development continues on Patamount’s live-action TV series based on author James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last Of The Mohicans", to be streamed exclusively on HBO Max:

"...the new take is a retelling of the novel's early French and Indian Wars, that focuses on an 'unlikely' romance between 'Uncas', a young 'Mohican'...

"...and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel..."

TV Pilot for the series was written by Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective") and Nick Osborne ("All About Steve") with Nicole Kassell ("Watchmen") attached to direct.

"The Last of the Mohicans", later retitled "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" was a 1957 TV series, running one season of 39 half-hour episodes, starring John Hart and Lon Chaney Jr. Click the images to enlarge...

The Lone Ranger isn't terrible popular among newer generations -- the spectacular failure of the 2013 "Lone Ranger" feature film cemented that notion -- but for many Baby Boomers, the character is a vital pop culture figure. For those who may need a refresher, The Lone Ranger is a masked vigilante who toured the Old West with his Indigenous American compatriot Tonto, writing wrongs on a freelance basis. He was previously a Texas Ranger (hence his moniker), rode a horse named Silver, and dispatched bad guys with specially made silver bullets. 

The Lone Ranger first appeared as the protagonist of a 1933 radio serial co-created by Fran Striker and George W. Trendle, which broadcasted on Wxyz out of Detroit, Michigan. This radio show was popular enough to warrant a "Lone Ranger" TV series, which is what really thrust the titular character into the pop culture zeitgeist as it ran for 221 episodes over nine years.

The Lone Ranger made his debut on a Detroit radio station in 1933, invented by either the station's owner, George W. Trendle, or the show's writer, Fran Striker. (There's some debate on the matter.) As fans of Westerns will know, The Lone Ranger was a masked vigilante who operated in the wilds of 19th century America, tracking down criminals with his best friend, a man named Tonto. Tonto's origins were never made wholly clear, although he's most likely Apache, Comanche, or Potawatomi. The Lone Ranger rode a horse named Silver, and used silver bullets to dispatch his victims.

The Lone Ranger's origin story is the stuff of comic book lore. The Ranger's older brother and a posse of other Texas Rangers were on the trail of an evil criminal named Cavendish, when, thanks to a betrayal, Cavendish got the drop on them. Cavendish killed them all, but left a young boy alive.

Prince Harry is reportedly growing increasingly frustrated with the New York Police Department’s handling of the May 2023 “near-fatal” paparazzi chase involving himself and Meghan Markle.

According to the Daily Mail, a member of Harry’s security team has sent letters to high-ranking NYPD officials expressing the Duke’s suspicion of a potential cover-up. These concerns stem from the NYPD’s initial downplaying of the incident and the subsequent lack of arrests despite assurances that sufficient evidence existed to proceed.

Prince Harry Blasts NYPD For Shocking Cover-up in “Near-Fatal” Paparazzi Chase of Him & Meghan Markle In 2023

The Sussexes have consistently maintained that they were subjected to a “relentless pursuit” by paparazzi, claiming “multiple near collisions” with other vehicles and pedestrians. However, the NYPD initially downplayed the incident, stating there were “no reported collisions, summonses, injuries, or arrests.”

Despite initial reassurances from NYPD’s top intelligence officer, John Hart, that sufficient evidence existed for arrests,...

The Western genre follows a classic, nostalgic formula. Full of iconic gunslingers, dangerous outlaws, and well-meaning sheriffs, these stories are thrilling at every turn and a great watch for anyone hoping to see a heroic battle in the rugged landscape of the Wild West, potentially in the form of one of pop culture's best non-movie Westerns. Hollywood has maintained its fascination with this niche genre, turning out Western TV shows like the Paramount hit Yellowstone and HBO's Westworld, both of which ran for multiple seasons and found a dedicated fan base.

Though classic Westerns are often looked to as relics of Hollywood's past, many modern Western TV shows would not exist without classic movies and shows that streamlined the genre. In fact, some franchises have even gone on to see new popular adaptations, such as Zorro and The Lone Ranger, due to their influence. Beyond their genre-defining effects, some classic...

Several actors have played characters who, if put in a room together, would likely hate each other. Versatility is one of the best tools an actor can have, allowing them to blend into and embody whatever role they're given. Some famous actors like Sir John Hurt and David Tennant are known for their chameleon-like acting skills, so much so that their range of characters can seem hilarious when placed next to each other. Some of their characters could simply never get along.

Twitter user Kevstermania recently started a thread about this very idea, placing Spider-Ham from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Jack Horner from Puss In Boots: The Last Wish next to one another. Both Spider-Ham and Jack Horner are voiced by actor John Mulaney and this example displays perfectly the concept of one actor playing diametrically opposed characters who would frustrate each other.

The Red Queen (Alice in Wonderland...

New York-based investment firm Mep Capital, which previously acquired the library of Lotus Entertainment, is launching West Side Pictures, a new independent rights management banner.

Along with Lotus Entertainment, Mep also recently acquired the distribution rights to over 500 films and TV shows previously owned by Kew Media, including “Line of Duty,” “Thank You For Smoking” and “Jack Taylor” and “Rules of Engagement.”

Now boasting a library comprising more than 800 movies, TV series and documentaries, Mep Capital has signed deals with Magnolia and Abacus Media Rights to handle the distribution of these titles in the U.S. and internationally, across streamers and TV channels.

West Side Pictures will also own and manage ongoing debt and equity participations positions in the late Roger Michell’s “Blackbird” and The Jim Henson Company’s “Portable Door,” among a dozen of productions funded by Mep Capital.

Prior acquisitions consolidated in West Side Pictures include the...

With the recent release of Netflix's The Sandman receiving widespread critical and fan acclaim, it's easy to get nostalgic for fiction from past eras as continues to weigh heavily across the pop culture landscape. While much of the current zeitgeist takes its inspiration from the pages of Marvel and DC, there's also a vast array of small and big screen adaptations derived from the glory days of daily newspaper print comic strips.

A few of these include Peanuts holiday animated specials, Archie live-action shows like Riverdale, movies like Dick Tracy, Popeye, and Dennis The Menace, and Adult Swim offerings like The Boondocks. Gen X and Baby Boomers alike fondly remember the heyday of '80s comic strips.

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Andy Capp was a popular offering in the latter part of the 20th century. Penned by cartoonist Reg Smythe, Capp appeared first in the British papers the Daily Mirror and...

Development continues on a live-action TV series drama based on author James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last Of The Mohicans", as HBO looks to attract the same audience as Starz historical romance series "Outlander":

"...the new take is a retelling of the novel's early French and Indian Wars, that focuses on an 'unlikely' romance between 'Uncas', a young 'Mohican'...

"...and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel..."

TV Pilot for the series was written by Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective") and Nick Osborne ("All About Steve") with Nicole Kassell ("Watchmen") attached to direct.

"The Last of the Mohicans", later retitled "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" was a 1957 TV series, running one season of 39 half-hour episodes, starring John Hart and Lon Chaney Jr.   Click the images to enlarge...

A new musical written by Anna Deavere Smith and featuring music from the Ella Fitzgerald songbook is currently in development. Ella: An American Miracle will receive an Aug. 25-Sept. 21 work session, with Tony-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater and Charity Angél Dawson portraying the iconic singer at different points in her life.

The work session will conclude with a private industry presentation. A production timeline was not disclosed.

“Composers wanted Ella Fitzgerald to sing their songs because listening to her, they knew how their songs were supposed to be sung,” said Smith in a statement. “A jazz singer, a scat singer, she also famously both sang and defined the American song book. To say she had humble beginnings is a profound understatement. She sang America through some of its most discordant times. She was America’s love song. She was an American miracle.”

Bridgewater, a Tony winner for 1975’s The Wiz, will...

Although many TV series have recently been given the axe due to budgetary concerns within the new Warner-Discovery merger, development continues on a live-action TV series drama based on author James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last Of The Mohicans", as HBO Max looks to attract the same audience as Starz historical romance series "Outlander":

"...the new take is a retelling of the novel's early French and Indian Wars, that focuses on an 'unlikely' romance between 'Uncas', a young 'Mohican'...

"...and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel..."

TV Pilot for the series was written by Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective") and Nick Osborne ("All About Steve") with Nicole Kassell ("Watchmen") attached to direct.

"The Last of the Mohicans", later retitled "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" was a 1957 TV series, running one season of 39 half-hour episodes, starring John Hart and Lon Chaney Jr.   Click the images to enlarge.

Development continues on a new live-action TV series based on author James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last Of The Mohicans", as HBO Max looks to attract the same audience as Starz historical romance series "Outlander":

"...the new take is a retelling of the novel's early French and Indian Wars, that focuses on an 'unlikely' romance between 'Uncas', a young 'Mohican'...

"...and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel..."

TV Pilot for the series was written by Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective") and Nick Osborne ("All About Steve") with Nicole Kassell ("Watchmen") attached to direct.

"The Last of the Mohicans", later retitled "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" was a 1957 TV series, running one season of 39 half-hour episodes, starring John Hart and Lon Chaney Jr.   Click the images to enlarge...

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Development continues on a new live-action TV series based on author James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last Of The Mohicans", as HBO Max looks to attract the same audience as Starz historical romance series "Outlander":

"...the new take is a retelling of the novel's early French and Indian Wars, that focuses on an 'unlikely' romance between 'Uncas', a young 'Mohican'...

"...and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel..."

TV Pilot for the series was written by Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective") and Nick Osborne ("All About Steve") with Nicole Kassell ("Watchmen") attached to direct.

"The Last of the Mohicans", later retitled "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" was a 1957 TV series, running one season of 39 half-hour episodes, starring John Hart and Lon Chaney Jr.   Click the images to enlarge...

Development continues on a new live-action TV series based on author James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last Of The Mohicans", as HBO Max looks to attract the same audience as Starz historical romance series "Outlander":

"...the new take is a retelling of the novel's early French and Indian Wars, that focuses on an 'unlikely' romance between 'Uncas', a young 'Mohican'...

"...and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel..."

TV Pilot for the series was written by Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective") and Nick Osborne ("All About Steve") with Nicole Kassell ("Watchmen") attached to direct.

"The Last of the Mohicans", later retitled "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" was a 1957 TV series, running one season of 39 half-hour episodes, starring John Hart and Lon Chaney Jr.   Click the images to enlarge...

HBO Max has handed out a script order for a new live-action series based on author James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last Of The Mohicans", looking to attract the same audience as Starz historical romance series "Outlander":

"...the new take is a retelling of the novel's early French and Indian Wars, that focuses on an 'unlikely' romance between 'Uncas', a young 'Mohican'...

"...and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel..."

TV Pilot for the series was written by Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective") and Nick Osborne ("All About Steve") with Nicole Kassell ("Watchmen") attached to direct.

"The Last of the Mohicans", later retitled "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" was a 1957 TV series, running one season of 39 half-hour episodes, starring John Hart and Lon Chaney Jr.   Click the images to enlarge...

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Update, Jan. 17, 3:15 Pm Pt: PBS NewsHour will cover the impeachment proceedings live as well as the commercial broadcast and cable news networks.

Judy Woodruff will anchor the broadcast, with Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardnis and White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor. PBS NewsHour will feature highlights and additional analysis. Guests are expected to include Elizabeth Chryst, Marty Paone, Victoria Nourse, John Hart and Margaret Taylor.

Some PBS stations will rebroadcast the trial proceedings in the evening, including Weta-tv, the PBS affiliate in Washington, D.C.

Previously, Jan. 16, 7:50 Am Pt: Broadcast networks are devising plans for coverage of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, meaning substantial pre-emptions of regular daytime programming.

Set to begin in earnest on Tuesday, the trial is expected to last about two weeks, and could very well go longer, especially if the Senate votes to call witnesses.

CBS News announced that it will broadcast...

HBO Max has put in development The Last Of The Mohicans, a series based on the historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, from Emmy winner Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective), Watchmen director Nicole Kassell, Nick Osborne (Remember Me) and Paramount Television, where Fukunaga is under an overall deal, Deadline has confirmed. The project had been in development at Paramount TV since last April. Anonymous Content and Fukunaga’s Parliament of Owls are producing. Kassell will direct.

Written by Fukunaga and Osborne and directed by Kassell, The Last of the Mohicans series will be a retelling of Cooper’s French and Indian War novel that re-centers the classic tale on the unlikely romance between Uncas, a young Mohican, and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel.

The Last of the Mohicans has a long history of both TV and film adaptions. There have been nine film adaptations, beginning with a 1912 version starring James Cruze.

Exclusive: In their first collaboration, Maniac, The Alienist and True Detective’s Cary Joji Fukunaga has teamed with Watchmen director Nicole Kassell to bring The Last Of The Mohicans to the small screen. A TV series based on the historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper is in development at Paramount Television, where Fukunaga has been under an overall deal. Anonymous Content and Fukunaga’s Parliament of Owls are producing.

Written by Fukunaga and Nicholas Osborne and directed by Kassell, The Last of the Mohicans series will be a retelling of Cooper’s French and Indian War novel that re-centers the classic tale on the unlikely romance between Uncas, a young Mohican, and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel.

“The clash of civilizations during the Seven Years War, which frames the story of Last of the Mohicans, has been a long-time passion of mine,” said Fukunaga. “It was a...

The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The Band’s Visit has recouped its $8.75 million capitalization, producers announced today.

“We are deeply grateful to the artists, collaborators and colleagues who have worked with us tirelessly to bring The Band’s Visit to Broadway,” said producers Orin Wolf, John Styles and John Hart. “It has brought us all such joy to see audiences connect with this story of strangers finding common ground through small acts of kindness.”

Winner of 10 Tony Awards, including for best musical, actor, actress, direction, book and score, The Band’s Visit began performances Oct. 7, 2017, at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre to universal critical raves and trophies. The production, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Itamar Moses, is tied with Hello, Dolly! and Billy Elliot in third place for most Tonys for a single show, behind The Producers (12) and Hamilton (11).

Based on the 2007 Israeli film, The...

Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, D’Urville Martin, Melvin Van Peebles, Lady Reed et al. | Written by Frank R. Salteri, J. Robert Wagoner, Cliff Roquemore, Melvin Van Peebles et al. | Directed by Melvin Van Peebles, D’Urville Martin, J. Robert Wagoner, William A. Levey et al.

Following their success with 2015’s Straight Outta Compton, and the debut of some of their line-up on Blu-ray, Xenon Pictures are releasing a series of classic (a broad term) Blaxploitation movies on VOD this month.

We should begin with the film that started it all. Melvin Van Peebles writes, directs and stars in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), a film that seeks to confront and challenge from the moment you try to read the title aloud. When the first scene depicts a preadolescent boy having sex with a grown woman, you know Van Peebles isn’t messing about. “This film is dedicated to...

Atlantic Theater Company Neil Pepe, Artistic Director Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director Mary McCann, School Executive Director will present their Annual Gala on Monday, February 26, 2018 at The Plaza 768 Fifth Avenue. Composers' Choice will pay tribute to celebrated composers of the stage with a fabulous evening of unexpected songs, honoring Orin Wolf, John Styles, and John Hart for their contribution to American musical theater.

Happy Memorial Day, everyone! While you’re off enjoying some much-needed downtime with friends and family, we’ve gone ahead and put together a recap of this week’s horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases that are coming our way on May 30th.

For those of you cult film aficionados out there, get those wallets ready, because there’s a bunch of great titles arriving on Blu-ray this Tuesday, including Blackenstein, Evil Ed, The Blood of Fu Manchu / The Castle of Fu Manchu double feature, The Hearse, The Undertaker, Slaughterhouse Rock, and Hide and Go Shriek.

As far as new genre films go, The Blackcoat’s Daughter (one of my personal favorites of 2017) and Rupture are making their way to Blu-ray and DVD, with the Shock-o-Rama box set also coming out on DVD.

The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Lionsgate, Blu-ray & DVD)

Beautiful and haunted Joan (Emma Roberts) makes...

Blaxploitation made its move on the horror market with Aip’s Blacula (1972); so successful was the foray that the money wheels started turning towards a follow up. And while Aip was busy cooking up a sequel to their surprise hit, an outsider saw an opening in the window of the American Dream and leapt right through. Frank Saletri may have been a lawyer by trade, but his heart belonged to horror and he gave his all to write and produce Blackenstein (1973) – a movie somewhat better than its godawful reputation, restored for posterity on Blu-ray by the fine folks at Severin Films. Come for the monster; stay to hear Saletri’s story.

Eddie (Joe De Rue) is a Vietnam vet who while in service, danced with a landmine and lost all his limbs as a result. As he arrives back home, his fiancée, Dr. Winifred Walker (Ivory Stone) meets with her...

Born in St. Louis on May 27, 1911, iconic actor Vincent Price retained a special fondness for his place of origin, and that love was reciprocated with Vincentennial, a celebration of his 100th birthday in his hometown back in May of 2011 (for summary of all the Vincentennial activities go Here). One of the guests of honor at Vincentennial was Vincent Price’s daughter Victoria Price. Because of their close relationship and her access to his unpublished memoirs and letters, Victoria Price was able to provide a remarkably vivid account of her father’s public and private life in her essential book, Vincent Price, a Daughter’s Biography, originally published in 1999. .In 2011, her biography of her father was out of print. but now it’s been re-issued and Victoria will be in St. Louis this weekend (October 9th – 10th) for three special events. In addition to the biography, she will also be signing...

We’ll be celebrating the 5th year anniversary of Super-8 Movie Madness at The Way Out Club in St. Louis on Tuesday October 7th with an encore performance of our most popular show. It’s Super-8 Vincent Price Movie Madness in 3D, the show that we took on the road to promote Vincentennial back in 2011. We’ll be honoring the hometown horror hero by showing condensed (average length: 15 minutes) versions of several of Price’s greatest films on Super-8 sound film projected on a big screen. They are: Master Of The World, War-gods Of The Deep, Pit And The Pendulum, The Raven, Witchfinder General, Tim Burton’s Vincent, Two Vincent Price Trailer Reels, Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein and The Mad Magician in 3D (We’ll have plenty of 3D Glasses for everyone)

The non-Price movies we’re showing October 7th are The Three Stooges in Pardon My Backfire...

Move over Buffy and watch your back Drusilla. James Marsters is looking for some new co-stars to share the stage with him this Christmas... and it could be you.

James has a performance in mind at his show in London this December that requires the acting talents of several people from the audience.

This is his only European event this year and he says he is determined to make it extra special. See my earlier article for more information and go to www.jamesmarsterslive.com for booking details.

In the run-up to the festive date, we had chance for an exclusive Q&A with James, where he shared his thoughts on the films and shows in which he's appeared - including Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Caprica, Torchwood and Smallville - as well as revealing his sci-fi favourites.

What does he think of the plans for a new Buffy movie? Would he return to Torchwood?...

Witchfinder General will play at the Vincentennial Vincent Price Film Festival in a 35mm print at 7:00pm tonight, Thursday, May 26th at Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University. Admission is free.

It’s likely that Vincent Price never delivered a better performance than the one he gave in Witchfinder General (1968), the fact-based story of infamous witchhunter Matthew Hopkins and the barbaric acts he practiced in mid-17th century England. Price completely jettisoned his usual campy theatrics in favor of an appropriately low-key, sinister, and menacing depiction of a purely evil man who hides behind a mask of religious allegiance. Price plays Hopkins as an unmerciful fiend with a genteel manner and an appetite for torture, especially burning. The movie is cruel in its violence but also intelligent and effective and Price is relatively restrained in a complex role as a man who whose mission is to achieve...

Champagne For Caesar will play at the Vincentennial Vincent Price Film Festival in a 35mm print at 7:00pm tonight, Tuesday, May 24th at Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University followed by The Baron Of Arizona at 9:15. With introductions and a post-film discussion of .Champagne for Caesar. by Washington U. film & media lecturer Hunter Vaughan. Admission is free.

Many works of fiction have been said to be ahead of their time. In the world of motions pictures few are more prophetic than the 1950 comedy classic Champagne For Caesar. By that year, mind you, quiz shows were popular on radio and that young upstart television, but by the end of the decade these programs would inspire a national craze ( and a scandal later depicted in Robert Redford’s film Quiz Show ). Caesar foreshadows all this while showcasing some delightful performances by actors generally not known for big screen comedies.

Revolutionary Road screenwriter Justin Haythe is being hired to write Disney's new take on The Lone Ranger, reports HeatVision.

Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) is to direct the feature, in which Johnny Depp will play native American sidekick Tonto. The title role hasn't yet been cast.

Pirates of the Caribbean writers Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio worked on a previous draft of the screenplay.

The character is well-known from long-running TV and radio shows, notably the 1949-1957 series starring Clayton Moore (and later John Hart) as The Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto.

In the story, a group of Texas Rangers are ambushed as they hunt down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish. The solo survivor of the attack is found and nursed back to health by an American Indian named Tonto.

John Hart, the man who replaced Clayton Moore as TV's wild west hero The Lone Ranger, has died, aged 91.

Hart battled dementia in his latter years and passed away at his home in Rosarito Beach, Mexico on Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

A California native, Hart launched his Hollywood career in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1938 film The Buccaneer.

After serving in the U.S. Army, he landed the title role in the 1947 TV series Jack Armstrong: The All-American Boy and took over from Moore as The Lone Ranger for 52 episodes of the popular family show.

He was the perfect choice for the role - because he worked as a cowboy as a teenager, and had joined the cast of the show to work with a nervous Silver, the Lone Ranger's horse.

Hart gave up the role of The Lone Ranger when Moore returned to the show, but he played the masked hero again in a 1981 episode of The Greatest American Hero and in a 1982 episode of Happy Days.

He also starred in Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, alongside horror movie icon Lon Chaney Jr....

Director Mike Newell is in talks to helm Walt Disney Pictures' big screen version of The Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp to play the hero's companion Tonto, according to trade magazine Production Weekly.

In the story, a group of Texas Rangers are ambushed as they hunt down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish. The solo survivor of the attack is found and nursed back to health by an American Indian named Tonto.

The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the gang and other outlaws to justice.

The character is well-known from long-running TV and radio shows, notably the 1949-1957 series starring Clayton Moore (and later John Hart) as The Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto.

The new movie is due out in 2010. No casting for the lead role has yet been announced - earlier rumours that...

There's a new big screen adaptation of the popular Lone Ranger character in the works and an unusual casting choice has been announced.

The Lone Ranger is the 1930s creation of Fran Striker. The Ranger is a masked avenger from the old west who seeks to help those in need. He's aided by his faithful white steed, Silver, and his American Indian friend, Tonto. The characters were first introduced to the public in a 1933 radio series that ran for more than 20 years. The Lone Ranger became such a hit that the characters were soon featured in movie serials, novels, comic strips, and comic books.

The character is likely best remembered for the half-hour Lone Ranger television series that began in 1949. Clayton Moore played the Ranger with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. Midway through the show's run, Moore had a dispute with the show's producers and he was replaced by actor John Hart for two years.

• #2. Revolutionary RoadDirector: Sam MendesWriters: Justin Haythe (The Clearing)Producers: Bobby Cohen, John Hart, Scott Rudin and MendesDistributor: DreamWorks Pictures The Gist: Based on the acclaimed 1961 novel by Richard Yates, and scripted by Justin Haythe, this is a heart-rending and bleak tome, celebrated for its storytelling style, follows a seemingly happy suburban couple with two children in the mid-1950s who find themselves caught between their true desires and the pressure to conform -- with explosive consequences.Fact: This is the first film collaboration between Kate Winslet and husband Sam Mendes.See It: Seasoned pros in Leo and Kate, means the acting might be impeccable.  Release Date/Status?: This goes wide on December 26th.    ...

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