Zorro reboot on the way
03-07-14 | 03:19 PM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
...a Dark Knight-style unveiling of the character with a new backstory, gritty realism and emotional core.
Hollywood to Honest language translation:
The only connection with the actual Zorro concept will be our character uses a sword. He won't actually be called Zorro in the film but everyone will know him as 'Z'.
Rumored names for the role of the dashing Spaniard include Will Smith and Jennifer Lawrence. Michael B. Jordan has officially taken his name off the list with the announcement he's the next Supergirl in WB's films.
Hollywood to Honest language translation:
The only connection with the actual Zorro concept will be our character uses a sword. He won't actually be called Zorro in the film but everyone will know him as 'Z'.
Rumored names for the role of the dashing Spaniard include Will Smith and Jennifer Lawrence. Michael B. Jordan has officially taken his name off the list with the announcement he's the next Supergirl in WB's films.
03-07-14 | 03:31 PM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe
Caucasian != Spaniard. Just because we call everyone who has the slightest hint of a lighter color Caucasian does not mean they are.
Caucasian != Spaniard. Just because we call everyone who has the slightest hint of a lighter color Caucasian does not mean they are.
03-07-14 | 03:42 PM
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03-07-14 | 04:41 PM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
Used to be that there was some assumption that audiences were familiar with the character (or could catch up...Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, etc.). I can understand 'reboots' when a character has been mishandled from the original incarnations (Tarzan), but is it really necessary to reacquaint every new generation with iconic characters such as Superman? Is it necessary to see every director's vision of a character requiring tweaks to the origin story?
How about Black Zorro? Female Zorro? One-armed Zorro? At least those would be intriguing.
How about Black Zorro? Female Zorro? One-armed Zorro? At least those would be intriguing.
(Now I'm jonesing for a team-up between (any) Zorro and the One-Armed Swordsman. Throw in Zatoichi and Richard Sharpe while we're at it!)
Easy way to decide this - it's Alabama 1961. Which drinking fountain does he have to use?
03-07-14 | 05:02 PM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
I think that anytime an actor is needed to play a Hispanic or a Spaniard the role should go to Ewan McGregor. Worked out well for The Impossible. 
03-07-14 | 07:24 PM
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03-07-14 | 07:36 PM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
I don't have a problem with them darkening up a Zorror reboot. What really made me thing "this is going to suck" was when they said they were going to add "martial arts, and daggers and bare knuckle fighting." That makes it sound similar to that stupid Muskateer movie a couple years back with Mira Sorvino.
03-07-14 | 09:35 PM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
I don't have a problem with them darkening up a Zorror reboot. What really made me thing "this is going to suck" was when they said they were going to add "martial arts, and daggers and bare knuckle fighting." That makes it sound similar to that stupid Muskateer movie a couple years back with Mira Sorvino.
03-07-14 | 10:14 PM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
I don't have a problem with them darkening up a Zorror reboot. What really made me thing "this is going to suck" was when they said they were going to add "martial arts, and daggers and bare knuckle fighting." That makes it sound similar to that stupid Muskateer movie a couple years back with Mira Sorvino.
03-08-14 | 12:11 AM
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03-08-14 | 12:35 AM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
Getting tired of the 'reboots' that retell the origin story...especially when it happens every decade or so (here's looking at you, Spider-Man).
Seems that we either get the 'grim & gritty' treatment or the 'dumb comedy treatment' (Green Hornet).
Used to be that there was some assumption that audiences were familiar with the character (or could catch up...Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, etc.). I can understand 'reboots' when a character has been mishandled from the original incarnations (Tarzan), but is it really necessary to reacquaint every new generation with iconic characters such as Superman? Is it necessary to see every director's vision of a character requiring tweaks to the origin story?
How about Black Zorro? Female Zorro? One-armed Zorro? At least those would be intriguing.
Although one-armed Z might need to wear a prosthetic arm in one incarnation to avoid detection of the secret identity.
Seems that we either get the 'grim & gritty' treatment or the 'dumb comedy treatment' (Green Hornet).
Used to be that there was some assumption that audiences were familiar with the character (or could catch up...Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, etc.). I can understand 'reboots' when a character has been mishandled from the original incarnations (Tarzan), but is it really necessary to reacquaint every new generation with iconic characters such as Superman? Is it necessary to see every director's vision of a character requiring tweaks to the origin story?
How about Black Zorro? Female Zorro? One-armed Zorro? At least those would be intriguing.
Although one-armed Z might need to wear a prosthetic arm in one incarnation to avoid detection of the secret identity.
03-08-14 | 01:41 AM
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03-08-14 | 06:50 AM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
There's no need to get racist, young man.
No comment on Lady Rawhide (although those covers were eye-catching).
I've got an old VHS of a female Zorro (Zorrita?)...and, no, it's not a porn parody.
I actually like a lot of the 'spin-offs' (Son of Robin Hood or the one with Kiera Knightly as Robin Hood's daughter). And ones with a female musketeer, etc. And when a character has been done to death, trying out something different (futuristic Beowulf & Phantom have been done) can be fun. But those are usually small-budget or side projects, and nobody's regarding them as a "definitive" or "faithful" version.
I guess it bothers me more when it happens to a character that hasn't really gotten his/her due in a faithful version...Modesty Blaise, for instance. When all that exists are either borderline parody or extremely low-budget, you'd like to see someone get it right before doing 'reboots'. Zorro has been done right (several times) and has seen various incarnations, so that's not as much as problem as when a big-budget movie like Green Hornet messes up the possibility of ever seeing a straight adaptation of the character in our lifetime. Athough I prefer Nolan's Batman to Burton's, at least there were a couple of decent Batman movies before Nolan's trilogy. Not so with some others who are still waiting a good rendition.
03-08-14 | 08:29 AM
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Re: Zorro reboot on the way
...a Dark Knight-style unveiling of the character with a new backstory, gritty realism and emotional core.
Hollywood to Honest language translation:
The only connection with the actual Zorro concept will be our character uses a sword. He won't actually be called Zorro in the film but everyone will know him as 'Z'.
Rumored names for the role of the dashing Spaniard include Will Smith and Jennifer Lawrence. Michael B. Jordan has officially taken his name off the list with the announcement he's the next Supergirl in WB's films.
Hollywood to Honest language translation:
The only connection with the actual Zorro concept will be our character uses a sword. He won't actually be called Zorro in the film but everyone will know him as 'Z'.
Rumored names for the role of the dashing Spaniard include Will Smith and Jennifer Lawrence. Michael B. Jordan has officially taken his name off the list with the announcement he's the next Supergirl in WB's films.
