Quentin Tarantino has seemingly given his blessing for Sony to move forward with a Django/Zorro movie. More on that strange mash-up below. We’ve seen some excellent – and not-so-excellent – mashup movies in the last couple of decades. Freddy Krueger has fought Jason Voorhees, Godzilla and King Kong have destroyed multiple buildings and cowboys and ... Django/Zorro movie in the works
Quentin Tarantino has seemingly given his blessing for Sony to move forward with a Django/Zorro movie. More on that strange mash-up below.
We’ve seen some excellent – and not-so-excellent – mashup movies in the last couple of decades. Freddy Krueger has fought Jason Voorhees, Godzilla and King Kong have destroyed multiple buildings and cowboys and aliens have also clashed on the big screen.
But this might be the weirdest mashup headed to the big screen so far. Deadline’s got the scoop that we will see a Django/Zorro movie in the near future from Sony. That’s right, Don Diego De La Vega will team up with the freeman played by Jamie Foxx in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.
As strange as this sounds, it hasn’t exactly come from nowhere. Tarantino and Matt Wagner created a 7-issue comic book run with the characters and Deadline understands that the new movie, written by Brian Helgeland, will continue the same story.
There’s no director attached quite just yet, but Tarantino isn’t expected to direct. After all, Tarantino isn’t too keen on sequels, but if you were a fan of the director’s 2012 film about Foxx’s slave who teams up with Christoph Waltz’s bounty hunter to rescue his wife Broomhilda.
In the comics, Django continued his journey as a bounty hunter and befriended Don Dieog De La Vega, who was played by Anthony Hopkins in the 1998 movie The Mask of Zorro, before the title was awarded to Alejandro Murrieta, played by Antonio Banderas in 2005’s The Legend Of Zorro.
There are no plot details available yet, but Deadline suspects the film will focus on a young Zorro. Helgeland isn’t a stranger to writing movies about strong men, as A Knight’s Tale, 42 and Man On Fire prove. He also took home an Oscar for writing L.A. Confidential.
We’ll keep you updated on all Django/Zorro related news.
