By After failing to be greenlit on at NBC in 2020 and The CW in 2022, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez’s gender-swapped reimagination of classic masked vigilante Zorro has found a home at CBS.
John Hlavin (“The Man Who Fell To Earth”) has joined the project, replacing the previously attached Sean Tetra as co-writer alongside Robert’s writer-director sister Rebecca Rodriguez.
CBS Studios and Propagate are behind the contemporary-set project in which a young Latino woman discovers that her long-deceased father was the legendary hero Zorro.
She takes on his masked persona to defend the desperate citizens of her Austin, Texas community from the wealthy forces seeking to exploit them.
Rodriguez, Ben Silverman, Rodney Ferrell, Howard T. Owens, Geoff Clark, Eric Bromberg, Jay Weisleder and John Gertz executive produce.
The news comes as a French “Zorro” series, starring Jean Dujardin as the masked swordsman, premiered on Paramount+ earlier this month while a Spanish one starring Miguel Ángel Bernardeau Duato hit Amazon Prime Video in January.
Meanwhile Wilmer Valderrama and Bryan Cogman have been developing a Zorro series of his own at Disney+ since 2021.
Source: Deadline
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