Get your black masks and swords ready. Zorro is coming back to the big screen — but this time, he's going to look a little different.
Lantica Media and Sobini Films have partnered up for a new Zorro feature film project set in a post-apocalyptic not-so-distant future, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which first broke the news Tuesday. The movie will be titled Zorro Reborn and will be set in the near future instead of the Spanish-occupied California of the 1800s, as the original pulp stories written in 1919 by Johnston McCulley go. The title character will, however, still be the swashbuckling hero fighting against corruption whom we all know and love.
Principal photography on the film is scheduled to begin in March 2016 at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios. The search for a director is still underway.
Antonio Banderas was the last to portray Zorro on the big screen in a couple of successful films: 1998's The Mask of Zorro and 2005's The Legend of Zorro. And who could forget his character Puss in Boots from the Shrek series, who was also a pastiche of Zorro.
Post-apocalyptic settings are certainly hot right now in movies and TV shows, so it's no surprise that a Zorro reboot would go in this direction. It sounds like this new gritty reboot will be a bit of a departure for the usually campy hero. Nevertheless, as long as the movie still has his trademark "Z," we're sure to recognize him.
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