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EXCLUSIVE: Production and income outfit WTFilms is joining forces pinch Joe Begos, known for cult scary hits specified arsenic Bliss and Christmas Bloody Christmas, on They Call Him Zorro.
The partners opportunity nan image will tie connected nan original writings of Johnston McCulley, who first introduced Zorro successful his 1919 caller The Curse of Capistrano, but done a scary lens.
“This is not your parents’ Zorro. In our iteration, nan masked people leader has much to do pinch acheronian and convulsive characters specified arsenic The Punisher aliases The Crow,” said WTFilms co-head and shaper Gregory Chambet.
“What if alternatively of being a coward by day, sword-yielding funny scoundrel by night, Diego Vega came backmost for vengeance successful nan shape of a scary, sadistic vigilante.”
Per nan charismatic synopsis: “When Diego Vega is framed by a group of soiled metropolis officials for a crime he didn’t commit, he escapes from situation and starts a relentless no-holds barred vengeance connected corruption and crime successful coming time Los Angeles. The media quickly finds a sanction for nan masked vigilante riding a achromatic El Camino equipped pinch chains, machetes, electrical saws, and a sawed-off shotgun: Zorro.”
Begos is presently penning and will nonstop arsenic good arsenic co-produce done Channel 83.
WTFilms and Begos’ narration dates backmost to his first movie Almost Human, which premiered successful TIFF Midnight Madness successful 2013 and sold to Independent Film Company.
They besides precocious collaborated connected Jimmy & Stiggs, released past twelvemonth by Eli Roth’s caller explanation The Horror Section.
“All of my favourite action movies, from T2 to Heat were changeable connected location successful Los Angeles, and it’s ever been a dream of excavation to inhabit nan aforesaid taste playground to shape immoderate of nan astir precocious octane and explosive group pieces imaginable, and this task is nan cleanable opportunity to showcase nan beauty of nan city, nan beauty of its culture, and propulsion disconnected immoderate aged schoolhouse applicable action filmmaking bathed successful nan crisp aureate hr glow of Hollywood,” said Begos.
Begos antecedently changeable each his films connected 16mm and nan scheme is to sprout They Call him Zorro connected 35mm.
“We want to bring backmost nan consciousness and ocular texture of action references specified arsenic To Live and Die successful L.A., RoboCop, aliases Hard Boiled,” he said
WTFilms is successful nan process of financing and casting, and Chambet said nan hunt is connected for nan lead actor.
“There is simply a deficiency of roles for talented Hispanic actors. Zorro is simply a Mexican characteristic and we want to create a badass icon that makes nan Latino organization excited and proud.
We will person done our occupation correct if group commencement dressing up arsenic this caller type of Zorro for Halloween,” he said.
