Zorro vs Django: the crossover relaunched with an Oscar-winning screenwriter

Sony Pictures has just hired Brian Helgeland to write a new script for this crazy project.

The crazy project seemed buried. He returns for our greatest pleasure!

The movie Django / Zorro is once again in development at Sony Pictures, with a solid name writing: Brian Helgeland, Oscar winner for LA Confidential.

Inspired by the 2014 comic book co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner, the feature film will tell an entirely new story. But the idea remains the same: to bring together two icons. On the one hand, Django, the bounty hunter played by Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained. On the other, the mythical masked vigilante Zorro, brought to the screen in the 1990s by Anthony Hopkins in The Mask of Zorro then by Antonio Banderas in The Legend of Zorro.

Plot details remain unclear, but the film is expected to follow their unlikely alliance. A duo as unexpected as it is promising.

For now, the project is still in its early stages. No director is attached, and Tarantino is not expected to step behind the camera. However, the filmmaker has been talking about this crossover for years. At one point, he even approached comedian Jerrod Carmichael to write a first version of the script. A version finally abandoned. And so Brian Helgeland is responsible for writing the new screenplay.

“It’s an incredible scenario… but I also understand how impossible the project seems”Carmichael confided to GQ in 2022.

On the casting side, nothing has been signed. Neither Jamie Foxx nor Antonio Banderas are officially on board. But the latter has already confirmed that Tarantino had approached him.

“He told me about it at an Oscar party, when I was nominated for Pain and Glory. I told him yes immediately. Quentin has this ability to take B-movie material and do something really interesting with it”Banderas said at the time.

A crazy project, long fantasized about, which is finally starting to come back to life. It remains to be seen if he will one day emerge from the shadows.