Tarantino's Zorro & Django Crossover Movie Update Shared by Writer
The crossover film between Django Unchained and Zorro will not happen according to the film's writer. Django Unchained was released in December 2012 and was a critical and financial hit, becoming director Quentin Tarantino's highest-grossing film and earning five Academy Award nominations. It took home Best Supporting Actor for Christoph Waltz and Tarantino's second Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Tarantino soon began talking about a sequel to the film, one that would be a crossover with the famed pulp hero Zorro.
The concept took life in the form of a comic book published by Dynamite Entertainment in 2014. Then, in 2019, Tarantino hired comedian and writer Jerrod Carmichael to help pen the script for the film and Tarantino even pitched the idea to Antonio Banderas, who starred as Zorro in 1998's The Mask of Zorro and 2005's The Legend of Zorro. The intention appears to have been an epic crossover between Jamie Foxx's Django and Banderas' incarnation of Zorro, which made sense as those Zorro films were distributed by Sony Pictures and Sony acquired the international distribution rights to Django Unchained and worked with Tarantino on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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In an interview with GQ, Carmichael reveals that the Django/Zorro film is not happening. Carmichael does not delve into why the project has been shelved, but does say it is impossible. Carmichael says he thinks he and Tarantino wrote a $500 million dollar film, which could either mean the price of the budget or how much they expected the movie to make at the box office, but the latter seems like the most viable option. Carmichael said:
«Quentin's a lunatic who I love, and I'm happy
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