


From there, the characters went on to star in a handful of theatrical films, including a pair of movies released as part of the TV series in the '50s (with Moore and Silverheels reprising their roles).īy the time Disney started working on a Lone Ranger movie reboot in the late 2000s, it had already been close to thirty years since the character's most recent appearance on the big screen (in 1981's The Legend of the Lone Ranger), which begged the question of whether the property was actually commercially viable anymore. Created for radio in the 1930s, the onetime Texas Ranger-turned masked vigilante known as The Lone Ranger would quickly go on to become a pop cultural icon in the first half of the 20th century and make the jump to television in 1949, with Clayton Moore and John Hart playing the titular role opposite Jay Silverheels as his Native American comrade Tonto. Here's everything that went wrong with Disney's The Lone Ranger.
