Futuristic ‘Zorro Reborn’ Screen-Testing ‘The Raven’ Short Director Ricardo de Montreuil

Posted on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 by Russ Fischer

Typically, we hear about screen tests being done for actors. But in the case of Zorro Reborn, which is tentatively set to star Gael Garcia Bernal in a futuristic revamp of the classic character, it is the director that is the object of the test.

The guy in question is Ricardo de Montreuil, who gained a lot of studio attention with his short film The Raven. (No relation to the John Cusack-starring film derived from Edgar Allen Poe.) The short was pretty quickly set up for a feature revamp at Universal, with Montreuil set to direct Mark Wahlberg.

In the meantime, however, he’s going to direct this screen test starring Bernal, which could land him the Zorro Reborn directing gig. Read More »

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Gael Garcia Bernal is a Futuristic Swordsman in ‘Zorro Reborn’

Posted on Friday, February 17th, 2012 by Russ Fischer

Briefly: Fox is rebooting Zorro, and now plans to put Gael Garcia Bernal behind the mask. Zorro Reborn will be a “futuristic reboot” of the Zorro tale that will reportedly be set somewhere quite different from the story’s classic locales.

Fox won’t comment, but let’s hope that the script, by Glenn Gers and Lee Shipman & Brian McGreevy, is to Zorro what Outland was to High Noon. (That is: “In Spaaaaaace!”) All we know for certain is that Bernal will be “the Spanish swordsman as a masked vigilante bent on revenge.” Which is to say, he’s playing Zorro.

No director is on board as of yet. [Variety]

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