New Zorro Movie

[AshburnerX]

...and it's going to be set in a post-apocalyptic future? Sounds odd, but it could work... I still remember Phantom 2040 with SOME fondness.

 

[Bowielee]

The reason Phantom 2040 worked was because it was a cartoon.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Zorro is one of my favorite matinee heroes...

I don't want this.

 

[Jay]

 

[sixpackshaker]

Where did you get that great pic of Angela Lansbury?

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Ehhhh, honestly? I can buy into the idea. Most of the settings in Zorro have always been this downtrodden view of Mexico; even the large places that the bad guys run. Those are more like fortified castles. Zorro was always kind of a wild west setting, so moving it over to a post-apocalyptic setting is pretty close to interchangeable.
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Of course, whether that interchangeability means it'll be actually good is another thing altogether.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Also, they got a great actor for Zorro.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

I'm suddenly picturing him carve a Z into the hull of a ship with a laser.

Okay, that'd be kinda awesome.

 

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[Espy]

Zorro has been done so many times and in such similar ways that, combined with my lack or real attachment to the character, I'm open to a big change in the setting for the movie.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Ok.. I gotta admit, lightsabers made that totally more epic.

 

[Norris]

I can live with this. If the script is good, there's no reason it can't work...but there's the rub. Post apocalypse is cheaper to make than a well done period piece, and if the reason for the change was purely financial then the script becomes somewhat suspect.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Like Muppets, everything is infinitely better when you add light sabres.

Except the prequels.