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Gender-swapped Zorro show coming to The CW

By Dan Selcke

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 23: Alex Kruz performs at The Return of Zorro at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 23, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Maury Phillips/Getty Images for Zorro Productions)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 23: Alex Kruz performs at The Return of Zorro at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 23, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Maury Phillips/Getty Images for Zorro Productions) /
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Zorro, the swash-buckling vigilante who risks his life to help the poor and downtrodden, first appeared in a series of stories by pulp writer Johnston McCulley in 1919. Several movies and TV shows later and the character has carved out his niche in pop culture, although we haven’t heard about any new Zorro projects in a while.

But when it rains it pours. Just last month, we reported that Disney+ was making a new Zorro series starring That 70s Show veteran Wilmer Valderrama. And now, Deadline reports that The CW is working on its own Zorro show. This one will star a Latina actor as a female version of Zorro out for vengeance against those who killed her father, which is a pretty classic story.

There were no Zorro projects in the works and now there are competing ones. Did one network get wind of what the other was doing and decide they had to get in on the ground floor, do you think?

A tale of two Zorros

Anyway, the CW Zorro show is being written by siblings Rebecca and Robert Rodriguez, the latter of whom is a major director behind stuff like Desperado, Sin City and several episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.

There’s no release date for either of the Zorro shows yet. Let the battle begin.

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