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...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.

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

Zorro is one of my favorite matinee heroes...

I don't want this.

Where did you get that great pic of Angela Lansbury?

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.

Also, they got a great actor for Zorro.

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

Okay, that'd be kinda awesome.

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.

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

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.

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

Except the prequels.