
Anyone out there interested in
Zorro reboot? I mean, really, really interested? I know I'm not, but still, there's a rumor that guys from Sony Pictures are quite serious about the whole thing.
Of course, sources say nothing about
Antonio Banderas and
Catherine Zeta-Jones (dream about it!), because this time it looks we'll go back to an origin tale of the comic book icon based on the 2005
Isabel Allende novel.
So, the word is that Sony Pictures has hired TV scribes
Matthew Federman and
Stephen Scaia to write the studio's reboot of the Zorro franchise.
Or, should I say – futuristic Zorro, because according to the latest reports, the new Zorro “will be less a caped crusader for justice than a one-man vigilante force bent on revenge, in a western story that has echoes of both Sergio Leone and
No Country for Old Men.” So, no wonder they already named this one –
Zorro Reborn.
Anyway, for those of you who are not so familiar with Federman and Scaia, they are probably best known as folks behind TV projects like
Jericho, Warehouse 13 and
Human Target, and they currently serve as supervising producers on ABC's
Charlie's Angels as well.
As for this fresh Zorro reboot, it will be their second feature effort after adapting
River Of Doubt, which centers on Teddy Roosevelt's 1914 trip down the Amazon River, for Jon Turteltaub's Junction Entertainment.
Let me ask you once again – anyone interested in this one?