‘Django/Zorro’ Movie from Sony Pictures Will Adapt Tarantino’s Mashup Comic

Quentin Tarantino’s Django joined forces with the legendary Zorro in the Django/Zorro mashup comic from Dynamite Entertainment back in 2014, and a movie is now on the way!

Deadline reports this afternoon that Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, LA Confidential) will be writing the Django/Zorro mashup movie for Sony Pictures.

According to the outlet, the project has the blessing of Quentin Tarantino. That said, don’t expect Tarantino to direct the movie. Stay tuned for more information as we learn it.

Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner wrote the 7-issue comic book series for Dynamite Entertainment, which saw Jamie Foxx’s Django forming an alliance with Zorro.

Deadline details, “The project is in early development with Helgeland scripting a new story that follows on from the comic series. In that comic, Django continued to track despicable prey as bounty hunter, and developed a kinship with Don Diego de la Vega, who was played by Anthony Hopkins in the 1998 TriStar film The Mask of Zorro, where Don Diego passed on the Zorro mantle to Alejandro Murrieta (Antonio Banderas) in the 1998 Martin Campbell-directed film.”

The Django/Zorro comic was set years after the events of Tarantino’s Django Unchained, with the duo freeing enslaved people and eventually confronting a tyrannical archduke. 

In the final issue, Django and Zorro battle to defeat the powerful Archduke of Arizona and shatter his sinister hold over the indigenous Yaqui people. Django finds he can no longer sit still as he sees an entirely different race enslaved under the yoke of a cruel master. And Diego de la Vega must deal with stunning heartache and loss in his never-ending quest for justice.