According to Deadline, Columbia Pictures is moving
ahead with their Zorro reboot. According to the reports the studio has hired
professional fencer/playwright/screenwriter Chris Boal (brother of Mark Boal –
The Hurt Locker) to rewrite the previously written draft by Matthew Federman
and Stephen Scaia. This draft was based on Isabel Allende’s 2005 novel that
served as a mock biography for the character.
The book is officially described as:
“A swashbuckling adventure story, "Zorro"
reveals the history behind the legendary masked man.
Born in Southern California in the late eighteenth
century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an
aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner, his mother a Shoshone
warrior. From his father, Diego receives lessons in the art of fencing and in
cattle branding; from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, he learns the ways
of her tribe. As a child he also witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native
Americans by European settlers and begins to feel the inner conflict of his
dual heritage.
At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Barcelona to
be educated. Spain is chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule, and
Diego, following the example of his celebrated fencing master, joins La
Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the
powerless and the poor. With this tumultuous period as a backdrop, Diego falls
in love, saves the persecuted, and confronts a great rival who emerges from the
world of privilege. After many adventures—duels at dawn, fierce battles with
pirates at sea, and daring rescues—Diego de la Vega, a.k.a. Zorro, returns to
America to reclaim the hacienda where he was raised and to seek justice for all
who cannot fight for it themselves.”
The report also says that this new movie will feature "a
new backstory, gritty realism and [an] emotional core."
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