Quentin Tarantino, Jerrod Carmichael are developing a Django/Zorro movie

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Right now, writer/director Quentin Tarantino is busy putting the final touches on his latest movie – his opus about Hollywood – ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. If you thought what he would tackle next wouldn’t be a crossover event that would seem par for the course for the folks at Marvel rather than his own résumé, then prepare to eat those thoughts. Word is he’s currently developing a follow-up to his Oscar-winning movie DJANGO UNCHAINED, but this time the movie will pair him up with the legendary, rapier-wielding hero, Zorro. Let that all marinate in your brain for a bit.

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The news comes from Collider, which is hearing from several sources that Tarantino is co-writing the script for DJANGO/ZORRO with comedian/actor/writer Jerrod Carmichael, based on Tarantino's own comic of the same from Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics. The original comic story (also from Matt Wagner and Esteve Polls) takes place several years after the events of the original movie, wherein our hero has settled his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) near Chicago, all before going back out on the road and doing his bounty hunter business and wiring her money. It’s during his travels that he comes across none other than Diego de la Vega – the notorious hero Zorro. Soon the two team up and use their special set of skills to free a group of indigenous people from slavery.

While the project is by no means confirmed and doesn’t have a home at any studio, the first trickles of this idea can be traced back to 2014, when the infamous Sony hack revealed emails between Tarantino and then-Sony boss Amy Pascal. Tarantino said the movie could be “really fun”, and Pascal agreed it could be “super cool.” Though nothing has been put on the books, the studio did release the first DJANGO international, and it’s where he took HOLLYWOOD after deciding to not release through The Weinstein Company again. It is possible that should the movie come to fruition it could find a home at Sony, who may be keen on developing not only a comic book adaptation but a sequel to what is Tarantino’s biggest movie worldwide.

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As for the script itself, there’s no word on if Carmichael – who is also working on a reboot of the 48 HOURS franchise – is writing on his own with oversight from Tarantino, or if the two are teaming up. There’s also no word on if Tarantino would direct the movie, or just have a hand in the script and then work on the producing front. He has gone on the record to say his next movie, his tenth, would be his final directorial effort, so whatever that project is he wouldn’t take lightly. There has been lots of rumbling that he would direct a STAR TREK movie, which is reportedly already in development stages with Mark L. Smith (THE REVENANT) writing the script, but there hasn't been news on that front since he started work on HOLLYWOOD.

As with all news of this kind treat it with a grain of salt before anything is confirmed from everyone involved, but at the very least it sounds like an incredibly cool project. Though it's hard to think about DJANGO taking place in a comic book world and existing as part of a shared universe, it makes a ton of sense to have the two characters teaming up. They're both slick warriors of the people, and to see star Jamie Foxx pairing with the likes of, say, past Zorro star Antonio Banderas would be a helluva movie.  While I'm sure Tarantino could want his final movie to be seen as one of this best and most lauded, if he rather wants to go out with a bang, this is one way of going about it. 

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD is in theaters July 26.