Antonio Banderas Recalls Tarantino’s Zorro & Django Crossover Pitch
Antonio Banderas is sharing details about the Quentin Tarantino-directed Zorro/Django Unchained crossover movie that was meant to star him alongside Jamie Foxx. Banderas first played the iconic sword-fighting vigilante in 1998's The Mask of Zorro before reprising the role in the 2005 sequel The Legend of Zorro. Foxx starred as the slave-turned-bounty-hunter Django in Tarantino's blood-soaked 2012 western epic.
As early as 2014 there were rumors of Tarantino considering the idea of a crossover movie that would connect the two franchises. While the concept never made its way to movie theaters, Tarantino actually did realize his idea in the form of a comic book, Django/Zorro, which he co-wrote as an official sequel to Django Unchained. The book saw the title characters teaming up a few years after the events of Django Unchained and Foxx's character eventually donning the famous black mask and the mantle of Zorro.
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In a recent interview with USA Today to promote his new Spanish-language comedy Official Competition, Banderas recalled a meeting he had with Tarantino in 2020 regarding the idea of a cinematic Zorro/Django story, saying the idea seemed, "fantastic and funny and crazy." The actor praised Tarantino's distinctive style as being a perfect fit for the hypothetical movie and said that he would have cherished the opportunity to work with both Tarantino and Foxx. Read his full statement below:
He talked to me, I think on the Oscar night (in 2020) when I was nominated for «Pain and Glory.» We saw each other at one of those parties. He just came up to me and I was like, «In your hands? Yeah, man!» Because Quentin just has that nature to do those type of
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