Zorro Reborn will start shooting in March 2016
Zorro Reborn will be set in a post-apocalyptic future.
A new Zorro Reborn movie is being developed that will reboot the popular property over at Lantica Media and Sobini Films, the production outfit that brought us Frida and Good Kill.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that principal photography will being in March 2016 at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios. Zorro Reborn will be set in the near future with a masked hero taking on bad-guys, very much like the original legend.
The story of Zorro heralds from 1919, a creation of New York–based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. He was first seen as Don Diego de la Vega in “The Curse of Capistrano”, serialized that year in five parts in the magazine All-Story Weekly. Since then the character has been seen in countless European, Mexican and American films, with Antonio Banderas featuring as Zorro in the last two movie outings The Legend Of Zorro and The Mask Of Zorro, though his incarnation was a new protegé, with Anthony Hopkins playing an aged Don Diego de la Vega in the first movie.
Catherine Zeta Jones and Antonio Banderas in The Legend Of Zorro
Zorro Reborn will be the first film to take the action and set it in the future, but according to THR’s report, the new film will retain much of the other aspects of the original story.
The trade also reports that the producers will be taking the film to Toronto to handle international sales. A director is currently being sought. Bryan Singer, Ricardo de Montreuil, Gary Whitta and Justin Marks have all been attached in the 15-years that the project has existed in the bowels of Hollywood.
“This has been a 15-year journey filled with ups and downs, but it has remained my passion project over the years.” said Mark Amin, Sobini CEO and producer of the film.
