To this end, John Reid disguises himself and becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Ulysses S. Grant (Jason Robards Jr ...

Filmation made a second animated series in 1980 in which the Lone Ranger was paired with Tarzan, and William A. Fraker made a slick (and very unsuccessful) feature film in 1981 called "The Legend ...

The series has been brought to the big screen before - most recently in 1981 in the movie The Legend of the Lone Ranger. The budget for the new film is said to be around £50 million.

There's no data on how either of these films performed at theaters. Universal's 1981 "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" brought in $12.6 million. Today, that would equate to $36 million. What may be ...