EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is moving forward with a most intriguing movie mashup. The studio has set Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, L.A. Confidential) to write Django/Zorro for a big-screen continuation of a story that was hatched in a seven-issue crossover comic book series co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner and published by Dynamite Entertainment.
The comic was published back in 2014 and was considered maybe the closest Tarantino might come to a sequel in the continuation of the adventures of the slave-turned-bounty hunter played by Jamie Foxx in the 2012 film Django Unchained. Tarantino directed that film but won’t helm this one, though I understand that this film has his blessing to move forward at Sony, where he’s expected to make his final film as director.
The project is in early development with Helgeland scripting a new story that follows on from the comic series.
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