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On radio, the Lone Ranger's producers wanted to spin off a "contemporary" character, and came up with the idea that John Reid's modern-day great-great-(etc.) grand-nephew Britt Reid was working in San Francisco as a millionaire newspaper editor, but, with the aid of his faithful Asian chauffeur...

And that one was at least aware of its M7 roots enough to cast Robert Vaughn as his Magnificent Seven character, in space. John Sayles B-movies are cool. :B)

(We moved the deprogramming of Reggie W.'s determination to defend the '13 Lone Ranger as "misunderstood genius" over to the '81 Lone Ranger Blu-ray thread. I don't know how it ended up here either, but apparently, those who get a taste of "Westerns are too OLD to remake!" just never let it go...)

Kurosawa wanted to make the point about the last days of the dying samurai culture, and the original '60 M7 did a good job of creating the dying gunfighter culture, especially in Brynner's "...None" speech. The characters in both movies had a professional camaraderie in knowing that their jobs...