Django/Zorro crossover was considered dead for four years — Sony has brought it back anyway

Back in 2022, screenwriter Jerrod Carmichael told GQ the project was effectively over: the Django/Zorro crossover had a finished script, it was “incredible” — but impossible to make. Sony Pictures couldn’t find a way forward. Now, it looks like they finally have.

According to Deadline, Sony has officially put Django/Zorro into development, with a new script by Oscar-winning writer Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, L.A. Confidential). Quentin Tarantino won’t direct — but has given the project his blessing.

The idea dates back to 2014, when Quentin Tarantino teamed up with comic book writer Matt Wagner to release the Django/Zorro comic series through Dynamite Entertainment — a direct continuation of Django Unchained. In the story, Django works as a bounty hunter in the Wild West and crosses paths with Don Diego de la Vega — an aging aristocrat who turns out to be Zorro. Together, they fight to free oppressed communities from slavery.

In 2019, Quentin Tarantino hired Jerrod Carmichael to adapt the comic into a feature film. Jamie Foxx was expected to return as Django, alongside Antonio Banderas as Zorro — reprising his iconic role from The Mask of Zorro (1998). Carmichael even described the script as a “$500 million movie.” But rights issues, budget, and logistics proved too much to overcome.

Now, Brian Helgeland is writing a completely new script based on the original comic, not Carmichael’s draft. Casting hasn’t been announced yet, and Jamie Foxx is not officially attached at this stage.

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