Robert Rodriguez’s Female-Led Zorro Series Is Now Heading to the CW

In case you have been questioning, prolific filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (whose most up-to-date tasks embrace directing episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, in addition to Netflix youngsters’ film We Can Be Heroes) remains to be within the Zorro enterprise. A number of years again, he was engaged on a female-led, Zorro-inspired present for NBC that by no means occurred—however now it’s resurfacing on the CW.

Rodriguez’s curiosity within the character of Zorro goes again a great whereas; within the mid-Nineties—circa his Desperado/From Dusk Till Dawn/The Faculty period—he was initially hooked up to The Mark of Zorro starring Antonio Banderas, although the movie was in the end made by director Martin Campbell as a substitute. In December 2020 got here information of a potential Zorro TV collection he was engaged on with Sofia Vergara at NBC; it was to observe an underground artist who “fights for social justice as a contemporary version of the mythical Zorro” and runs afoul of criminals within the course of.

Now, as Deadline updates us, it’s trying like Rodriguez would possibly lastly get to make his Zorro present on the CW, for the reason that community is now creating “a gender-swapped reimagining of the classic masked vigilante character.” It’s described as “a new iteration” of that NBC venture (no Sofia Vergara on this one, for starters), and is about “a young Latinx woman seeking vengeance for her father’s murder joins a secret society and adopts the outlaw persona of Zorro.”

The present shall be co-written by Rodriguez, Sean Tretta (Mayans M.C., 12 Monkeys, Hunters), and Rebecca Rodriguez, the latter being Robert Rodriguez’s sister who can also be an skilled TV director, with credit on Doom Patrol, Snowpiecer, The Orville, and extra. She may also direct the Zorro present, with Tretta showrunning, if the CW decides so as to add a distinct kind of masked vigilante to its secure of superhero-adjacent content material.

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