Quentin Tarantino Pitched His DJANGO/ZORRO Movie to Antonio Banderas
A few years ago Quentin Tarantino was developing a Django Unchained and Zorro crossover movie titled Django/Zorro with Jerrod Carmichael. The project was based on a comic series that Tarantino wrote with Matt Wagner. Well, it turns out that Tarantino wanted Antonio Banderas to star in the film and even pitched him the concept!
Banderas recently shared in an interview with USA Today, "He talked to me, I think on the Oscar night (in 2020) when I was nominated for 'Pain and Glory.' We saw each other at one of those parties. He just came up to me and I was like, 'In your hands? Yeah, man!' Because Quentin just has that nature to do those type of movies and give them quality. Even if they are based on those types of B-movies of the '60s and '70s, he can take that material and do something really interesting. We've never worked together, but it would be great because of him, because of Jamie Foxx and because of (playing) Zorro again when he's a little bit older. It would be fantastic and funny and crazy."
The story for Django/Zorro the takes place several years after the events of Django Unchained and here’s the synopsis: “The official Django Unchained sequel, uniting the gun-blazing Western hero with the legendary swordsman of literature, film, and comics: Zorro! Set several years after the events of Django Unchained, Django again pursues evil men in his role as a bounty hunter. Taking to the roads of the American Southwest, he encounters the aged and sophisticated Diego de la Vega by sheer chance. Django is fascinated by this unusual character, the first wealthy white man he’s met who seems totally unconcerned with the color of his skin… and who can hold his own in a fight. Django hires on as Diego’s bodyguard, and is soon drawn into a fight to free the local indigenous people from brutal servitude. Learning much from the older man (as he did from King Schultz), he discovers that slavery isn’t exclusive to his people, as he even dons the mask of Zorro in their mission of mercy!”
I sure would have loved to see this movie get made and to see Banderas reprise his role as Zorro would have been pretty damn awesome! I guess there’s still a chance that it could happen one day. We’ll just have to wait and see!