A Django Unchained and Zorro crossover film is indeed in the works, with a new report revealing that L.A. Confidential screenwriter Brian Helgeland has been tapped to pen the script.
Per Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr., Quentin Tarantino, who wrote and directed 2012’s Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio, will not be in the director’s chair for the tentatively titled Django/Zorro, based on the comic series of the same name.
The Dynamite Entertainment title, written by Matt Wagner and the two-time Oscar winner, arrived back in 2014 and was billed at the time as “the official sequel” to Tarantino’s original film, which proved to be both a commercial and critical success.
The Django/Zorro film, according to Deadline, is in “early development” at Sony, which is also the likely home for Tarantino’s long-teased final directorial project. For now, there is no official word on what final casting will look like, or who might be directing the film.
This is not, to be clear, the first we’ve heard of a possible Django/Zorro film. Back in 2022, Jerrod Carmichael, in a conversation with GQ’s Frazier Tharpe, recalled working with Tarantino on an ultimately scrapped iteration of the project.
“It’s actually an incredible, incredible script that came in from that Django/Zorro that I would love for Sony to figure out, but I realize the impossibility of it,” he told the Complex alum at the time.
Helgeland, for those unfamiliar, has a number of noteworthy writing credits to his name including A Knight’s Tale, Mystic River, Man on Fire, and the aforementioned L.A. Confidential.
Notably, this isn’t the only Tarantino-associated continuation on the horizon. Later this year, The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to the Tarantino-directed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood featuring Brad Pitt reprising the role of the title character, will hit theaters and Netflix. Though he wrote the script, Tarantino isn’t directing that one either, with David Fincher—of Fight Club, Zodiac, and The Social Network fame—instead taking the wheel.
