Jonas Cuaron, who co-wrote Gravity with his Oscar-winning father, Alfonso Cuaron, has been signed to direct Z, a futuristic version of the Zorro story.
The project is in the works at Lantica Media and Sobini Films. In August 2015, the two companies combined forces to revive the long-gestating Zorro Reborn project, which puts Don Diego de la Vega in a post-apocalyptic world. The project has now been retitled to just Z, notes The Hollywood Reporter.
Lantica is hoping to start production this summer.
Zorro is a pulp hero created in 1919. He’s really the aristocrat Don Diego, who steals from the rich to help the poor in corrupt Spanish-controlled California. The character has been brought to the screen countless times, although it has been over a decade since The Legend of Zorro with Antonio Banderas hit theaters.
Cuaron is looking to follow his father’s footsteps in Hollywood. In 2007, he directed Year of the Nail and has just finished Desierto with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Gael Garcia Bernal. That movie hits theaters on March 4.