'Zorro' is Getting a Post-Apocalyptic Reboot
Classic masked bandit film, "Zorro" will be getting a reboot in the post-apocalyptic genre soon.
Sobini Films and Lantica Media have inked an agreement for a new movie project based on a futuristic version of Zorro.
Media company Lantica will be in charge of financing and producing the project, with the production's principal photography scheduled to begin by March next year at Pinewood's Dominican Republic Studios.
Producer and Sobini Films CEO, Mark Amin, who was behind well-received films like "Frida" and "Good Kill" will be producing the post-apocalyptic Zorro movie, as well.
Zorro's character first appeared in 1919 in pulp magazine, "All-Story Weekly," featuring a five-part serialized story, "The Curse of Capistrano." Created by pulp writer, Johnston McCulley, Zorro was the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a wealthy Spanish nobleman born in California during the Spanish rule.
Zorro's character is depicted as a masked outlaw dressed in black who defends Los Angeles commoners, peasants, and indigenous people from corrupt government officials and other villains. The dashing Zorro is shown as a cunning, ingenious and stealthy individual who typically humiliates bumbling authorities who try and fail to apprehend him.
The upcoming movie project, tentatively titled "Zorro Reborn," will be set in a far-away future but will retain the basic theme of a mysterious masked stranger wearing a cape who takes on tyrannical antagonists.
There have been other potential Zorro projects in the past, particularly for 20th Century Fox in the last 15 years, with various directors like Bryan Singer, Justin Marks, Gary Whitta, and Ricardo de Montreuil attached to the project.
The Sobini Films – Lantica Media collaboration is finally getting this version of Zorro off the ground, after the last film, "The Legend of Zorro," starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones was distributed by Columbia Pictures in 2005.
