It’s what every post-apocalytic landscape needs, a guy running around with a sword slashing Zs into peoples’ shirts. Or at least that’s what Fox thinks, as they’ve put the futurisitc reboot Zorro Reborn into development, according to the LA Times.
However this does sound like a true Hollywood fudge, as while billed as reboot of the classic Zorro character, it won’t feature many of the traditional characteristics of Zorro – so basically nab the name for brand recognition and hope that alone will translate into box office bucks.
Although specific story details aren’t known, in this version Zorro will be driven by vengeance instead of justice, with the character running around in a future post-apocalytic wasteland.
Although Fox is refusing to comment, Rpin Suwannath will apparently make his directorial debut with Zorro Reborn, after a career working in pre-visualization on such movies as X-Men and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, who wrote the Dracula reboot Harker that is being developed at Warner Bros, are on screenplay duties.
Zorro Reborn is said to be in the very early stages of development, with the LA Times reporting it has a story that has shades of Sergio Leone Westerns and No Country for Old Men. Yeah, right, and that’s not Hollywood hyperbole at all.
It’s certainly very different to the swashbuckling flick with Antonio Banderas, and I think it’s safe to ppesume he won’t be returning to the role here. Expect many names to be rumoured for the lead role in the next few months, although to be honest, I’d be surprised if this one ever gets close to a rolling camera.