A movie based on Quentin Tarantino’s Django/Zorro crossover comic book is in the works at Sony Pictures, with L.A. Confidential’s Brian Helgeland attached to pen its script.
As reported by Deadline, the film will be the big-screen continuation of the seven-issue comic series co-written by Tarantino and Matt Wagner in 2014. The Django/Zorro movie is reported to be in early development, and although Tarantino is not attached to the film in a formal capacity for now, the filmmaker has apparently given his blessing for the project to move forward with Sony.
The original crossover comic saw Django continuing his mission to hunt down slavers as a bounty hunter, and saw him teaming up with Don Diego de la Vega, aka Zorro. Django was last seen on the big screen in Tarantino’s 2012 film Django Unchained, where he was played by Jamie Foxx, while Zorro has been portrayed by multiple different actors over the years, notably Guy Williams in the 1957 TV series Zorro, and later on by Antonio Banderas in 1998’s The Mask of Zorro.
“It was reading [Wagner’s] Zorro stories that convinced me what a good idea it was to join these two icons together,” Tarantino said previously during the 2014 comic’s announcement. “And the story idea we came up with is thrilling, and I think it will be an exciting new chapter for both characters.”
This isn’t the first time a movie based on Tarantino’s comic has been discussed, as Hollywood had initially planned to make a movie featuring the two heroes at the time of the comic’s release, but these plans were put on hold due to the 2020 pandemic. Now, with the rights to both characters reportedly cleaned up, the way has been paved for Django and Zorro to finally cross paths on the silver screen.
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