This will not be a remake, but an origin tale based on Isabel Allende's novel. Allende reinvented the Zorro legend. In his tale Zorro is Diego de la Vega, born in 1795, and grows up in California, but is raised in Spain. He is part of a wealthy family, but develops a sense of right and wrong from befriending the exploited natives. His skills with the sword catch the eye of a senior member of a secret soceity, La Justicia. He is recruited to join the society, and his secret identity is formed during the training process.
After he has been trained and becomes the Zorro that most of us know and love he returns to California to reclaim his family's estate, and to help fight the oppression of the natives. During these events he encounters many famous people of the era, each helping shape the man, the hero he will become.
Sony Pictures has tapped TV scribes Matthew Federman & Stephen Scaia to write the studio’s reboot of the Zorro franchise, which won’t be a remake but an origin tale of the comic book icon based on the 2005 Isabel Allende novel. It will be the latest take on the sword-wielding do-gooder following Sony’s 2005 pic The Legend Of Zorro, starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and directed by Martin Campbell. Federman and Scaia are known for their TV work — their credits include Jericho, Warehouse 13 and Human Target and they currently serve as supervising producers on ABC’s Charlie’s Angels. They also just finished writing a Paris-set World War II action drama being developed by Chernin Entertainment and Fox Television Studios for cable. Zorro will be their second feature effort after adapting River Of Doubt, about Teddy Roosevelt’s 1914 trip down the Amazon River,
for Jon Turteltaub’s Junction Entertainment. They are repped by CAA and Mosaic.
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