Lantica Media and Sobini Films have teamed up to finance the proposed post-apocalyptic reboot of the classic masked character Zorro Reborn. The new life for Zorro was supposed to get a principal photography in March 2016 at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios.
The plot will be Zorro as a hero of peasants and farmers who fought against corrupt and brutal officials of Spanish-held California, however, it will take place in the near future and then moves the mythic hero into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Though the Zorro Reborn has been percolating for years, but recently, Gael Garcia Bernal signed on at the American film studio, distributor and one of the six major American film studios -20th Century Fox, to star in the Zorro Reborn. And the script will be written by Glenn Gers, Lee Shipman, and Brian McGreevy.
Sobini CEO Mark Amin said, "This has been a fifteen year journey filled with ups and downs but it has remained my passion project over the years," and Lantica Media CEO Antonio Gennari said, "Every generation has its own Zorro hero and we're proud to be able to introduce a new Zorro to this generation."
The Zorro Reborn project is still searching for a filmmaker to tackle the project, where it had been previously set up at 20th Century Fox with names like Bryan Singer (helmer of X-Men films), Ricardo de Montreuil (has achieved recognition in a wide range of media, including film, television, advertising and print), Garry Whitta and Justin Marks got involved with it over the years.
Pulp writer Johnston McCulley originated the character of Zorro in 1919, and since then Zorro has gotten plenty of books. Zorro also appeared in numerous films originating in the 1920s with the American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer Douglas Fairbanks portrayed the role. And most recently with Antonio Banderas played the character in 1998's excellent The Mask of Zorro and its 2005 sequel The Legend of Zorro. Zorro also the star of the half-hour Disney TV series Zorro in the 1950s.
