A Zorro reboot is coming, as Sony Pictures have hired playwright Chris Boal to write the screenplay. Check here for all the details.
According to Deadline, Sony Pictures are gearing up to reboot the Zorro franchise and have hired the celebrated playwright Chris Boal to come up with the story.
Apparently, the first film in a new series will take Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy as inspiration, with a realistic setting and new backstory. The following is what Mike Fleming Jnr wrote for Deadline regarding what his sources state. 
“I’m told that the ambition of the movie is less traditional swashbuckler, and more of a Dark Knight-style unveiling of the character with a new backstory, gritty realism and emotional core. There will be swordplay, combined with the martial arts that came from Europe and created a deadly combination of action and lethal fighting systems that combined swords, daggers, grappling and bare knuckles.
“Boal was a competitive fencer on the national circuit before becoming a writer. He just adapted the sci-fi novel Old Man’s War for Paramount and producer Scott Stuber and Wolfgang Petersen, the Viking pic Vanguard for Warner Bros and Atlas for Alexander Skarsgaard to star, and Caesar for Warner Bros and Thunder Road. He’s repped by CAA, Madhouse Entertainment and attorney Sean Marks.”
Do you like the character Zorro? Would a more realistic setting and film be a good move for the swashbuckling hero?
