Whoa. I thought this project had quietly died. Back in 2019, we learned Quentin Tarantino had set in motion a crossover movie that would pair the iconic outlaw Zorro with Django, the heroic former slave of Tarantino’s 2012 hit Django Unchained. Comedian Jerrod Carmichael was attached at the time, but nothing ever got moving. Well, that’s changing now, as Deadline reports Sony Pictures is moving forward on the film, a continuation of the Dynamite Entertainment comic book that Tarantino co-wrote with Grendel creator Matt Wagner.
Sony has set Academy Award-winning writer Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential) to pen the Django/Zorro crossover movie. The comic was published back in 2014, and basically served as a semi-sequel to Tarantino’s Django Unchained, which starred Jamie Foxx. The story found Django continuing on as a bounty hunter, and befriending the new Zorro after the mantle was passed to him by Don Diego de la Vega.
In 2022, Tarantino reached out to Antonio Banderas, who played Zorro in two movies in 1998 and 2005. As of now, it’s unclear if either Foxx or Banderas is involved. What we do know is that Tarantino will not be directing this crossover movie, but he has given it his blessing. He still plans to direct a tenth and final movie with Sony Pictures at some point.
Coming up for Helgeland is a different kind of Western flick, Outside Man, where he’ll direct Ice Cube and Tommy Lee Jones.
