Zorro reboot will be written, produced and directed by Jonas Cuaron.
Jonas Cuaron will write the planned Zorro reboot. Cuaron is mostly known for his work on the Gravity screenplay, which he wrote with his father, Alfonso Cuaron back in 2013. The word on the street is that Cuaron will also direct and produce the project, currently being referred to as simply ‘Z’, for Lantica Media and Sobini Films.
The Zorro reboot will be Cuaron’s biggest project to date, after directing a couple of shorts (including one that tied in with Gravity‘s plot), the film Year Of The Nail, and the movie Desierto, which debuted at last year’s London Film Festival. We managed to catch the film at the festival, and we really quite enjoyed it. The film is essentially a cat-and-mouse movie set on the U.S./ Mexican border where Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character is picking off illegal immigrants, one by one with an assault rifle. One of them is Gael García Bernal, who seems to be a little too smart for his pursuer.
Here are our thoughts on the film:
Certainly a film that is less taxing on the brain than other films that have tackled the immigration issues that the US faces every day, but with a great turn by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and some great ideas from a well-paced, tight screenplay, Desierto is a great chase flick that certainly delivers the goods.
Thinking about it, Gael García Bernal would be a great fit for Zorro, but of course, there’s no news yet as to who will take on the role of the masked hero who was previously played by Antonio Banderas in the previous movies.
There was talk of the film being a post-apocalyptic version of the classic Zorro tale, but we’re unsure if this still is the case for Cuaron’s Zorro reboot.
More news as we get it.
