Merrick here...
THIS piece in the LA Times offers some insight into ZORRO REBORN, an undertaking not connected to the Martin Campbell/Antonio Banderas pictures from a few years back.
The film joins the recent BOOK OF ELI, Albert Pyun's newly announced CYBORG remake, and George Miller's still-elusive MAD MAX: FURY ROAD in a growing line-up of splashy post-apocalyptic cinematic adventures; there are probably a few more I can't recall at the moment. I guess they're becoming a "trend"?
Per The LA Times...
Unlike many of the previous Zorros (real name: Don Diego de la Vega) brandishing whips and swords, the hero of the new installment will live in the future -- specifically a desolate and post-apocalyptic one,
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In this version, Zorro will be less a caped crusader for justice than a one-man vigilante force bent on revenge, in a western story that has echoes of both Sergio Leone and "No Country for Old Men."
The movie will be directed by Rpin Suwannath, a previsualization specialist who worked on a number of the "X-Men," "Matrix" and "Chronicles of Narnia" movies.
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The "Zorro Reborn" script has been written by Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, the screenwriters behind the Dracula reboot "Harker" at Warner Bros. The Zorro film is expected to provide a juicy lead role for a young actor.
While ZORRO REBORN is apparently a Fox project, a while back we learned that Warners was looking to set reboots of CAPTAIN BLOOD and ROBIN HOOD in space and the future respectively. Nothing seems to have happened with these project that we're aware of, but word of ZORRO does suggest that the notion of transplanting established heroes/characters into fantastical settings hasn't been (and won't soon be) quashed by the industry.
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