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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is moving guardant pinch a astir intriguing movie mashup. The workplace has group Academy Award victor Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, LA Confidential) to constitute Django/Zorro for a big-screen continuation of a communicative that was hatched successful a 7-issue crossover comic book bid co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner and published by Dynamite Entertainment.
The comic was published backmost successful 2014 and was considered possibly nan closest Tarantino mightiness travel to a sequel successful nan continuation of nan adventures of nan slave-turned-bounty huntsman played by Jamie Foxx successful nan 2012 movie Django Unchained. Tarantino directed that film, but won’t helm this one, though I understand that this movie has his blessing to move guardant astatine Sony wherever he’s expected to make his last movie arsenic director.
The task is successful early improvement pinch Helgeland scripting a caller communicative that follows connected from nan comic series. In that comic, Django continued to way bad prey arsenic bounty hunter, and developed a kinship pinch Don Diego de la Vega, who was played by Anthony Hopkins successful nan 1998 TriStar movie The Mask of Zorro, wherever Don Diego passed connected nan Zorro mantle to Alejandro Murrieta (Antonio Banderas) successful nan 1998 Martin Campbell-directed film.
The comic collaboration betwixt Tarantino and nan Eisner-Award winning comic creator Wagner created awesome hopes for a movie astatine nan time. There was discussion, but momentum seemed snuff by nan pandemic. Now, nan authorities are each cleaned up to move guardant pinch Helgeland, whose vehicles pinch beardown starring men besides see Man connected Fire, 42 and Legend.
Both Helgland and Tarantino are repped by WME.
