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Robert Rodriguez's Female-Led Zorro Series Is Now Heading to the CW
The project was first touted as a potential NBC show back in 2020.
https://gizmodo.com/robert-rodriguezs-female-led-zorro-series-is-now-headin-1848342212

In case you were wondering, prolific filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (whose most recent projects include directing episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, as well as Netflix kids’ movie We Can Be Heroes) is still in the Zorro business. A few years back, he was working on a female-led, Zorro-inspired show for NBC that never happened—but now it’s resurfacing at the CW.

Rodriguez’s interest in the character of Zorro goes back a good while; in the mid-1990s—circa his Desperado/From Dusk Till Dawn/The Faculty era—he was initially attached to The Mark of Zorro starring Antonio Banderas, though the film was ultimately made by director Martin Campbell instead. In December 2020 came news of a potential Zorro TV series he was working on with Sofia Vergara at NBC; it was to follow an underground artist who “fights for social justice as a contemporary version of the mythical Zorro” and runs afoul of criminals in the process.

Now, as Deadline updates us, it’s looking like Rodriguez might finally get to make his Zorro show at the CW, since the network is now developing “a gender-swapped reimagining of the classic masked vigilante character.” It’s described as “a new iteration” of that NBC project (no Sofia Vergara in this one, for starters), and is about “a young Latinx woman seeking vengeance for her father’s murder joins a secret society and adopts the outlaw persona of Zorro.”




The show will be co-written by Rodriguez, Sean Tretta (Mayans M.C., 12 Monkeys, Hunters), and Rebecca Rodriguez, the latter being Robert Rodriguez’s sister who is also an experienced TV director, with credits on Doom Patrol, Snowpiecer, The Orville, and more. She will also direct the Zorro show, with Tretta showrunning, if the CW decides to add a different sort of masked vigilante to its stable of superhero-adjacent content.

 

I meant 'show' lol.

BTW, has anyone enjoyed Hawkeye? The humor in the show is refreshing and I've been laughing my way through the first two episodes. Episode three starting in five minutes. #BingeWatching

 

The trailer for the second season of Raised by Wolves

 

I'm going to miss The Expanse a great deal. In my view, it can compete with any sci-fi Tv series ever created.

 

Will have to re-watch season 1 to keep my memory fresh going into the 2nd season. This has been a long wait.

 

So, I just watch The Eternals. It was actually good. Not great, but good. A solid B. Much better than Black Widow and Shang-Chi (but nowhere near as good as SM;NWH). Outside of the brother being a jumpy gay man, it was well with seeing.

Why were so many people hating on it and calling it boring with a plot they couldn’t follow? What am I missing?

 

You're not a spoiled entitled fuck. That's what you're missing......

 

I liked Hawkeye a lot, however, I'm not 100% sold on how easy it is to be a superhero all of the sudden. To be honest I liked

Spoiler

Yelena a lot more in this than I did in Black Widow, I now thank she will be a decent replacement for Natasha

What I liked the most is how you can almost see the wheels turning for the inevitable team-ups (Young Avengers, "New" Hawkeye and Black Widow) that are going to come out of this.

 

It's not a bad movie and it's not boring, but I think it felt a little out of place with the rest of the MCU. Chloé Zhao has a very artistic eye, but MCU movies have to strike a balance between artistic film and butts-in-seats popcorn movie. I think she tipped the balance a little too far in one direction for a lot of people.

 

Eternals would have worked far better as an old school style event mini series ala Roots or Shogun on Disney+. With the number of characters introduced & the overall themes presented, it would have benefitted from an 8-10 episode series (each episode being full half hour or two hour movies to themselves) to fully flesh out the characters' backstory & histories over the centuries as well as introduce some of the ancient Marvel civilizations & events to ground it fully in the MCU.

 

I waited to finish the whole series before coming back to this thread. Lol. I agree about seeing the setups for future series. Marvel does a much better job of that and the continuity of the MCU than DC has done. DC always feels like they’re trying to rush the exposition.

 

I think DC's problem is that they were successful for so long with doing stand-alone Superhero movies. The execs at WB probably thought shared universes were a fad until Avengers blew the doors off the box office.

 

Also they don't do clean breaks it actually kinda reminds me of how DC does reboots every decade or so.
Makes a mess of continuity. The Flash is going to be a mess delete a lot of Snyder stuff + Keaton stuff + random new shit.

Still have a separate Batman

 

True, and I don't think that DC can replicate nor catch up to that.

 

I thought Hawkeye was okay. They telegraphed the reveals too much. There was no surprise in them. And, some of the fight scenes were filmed in a way that was hard to see.

With that said, I thought it was a decent show. I put it below The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. About tied with WandaVision but above Loki. Frankly, none of the D+ MCU shows have been as good as Daredevil S1 and S3.

 

I think they could. They just need the right leadership. Someone who knows how to get good movies made, but still understands and respects the appeal of the DC line up.

There’s no way WB should be getting their ass kicked by Marvel this far into the game. Marvel, basically, ran the board with their B roaster because they couldn’t use their top tier characters. WB has had full control of the full DC cannon of heroes and still can’t make anything really pop outside of Batman. That all boils down to their leadership.

 

Raised By Wolves | Character Recap: Father | HBO Max

 

Looks like Netflix put out a teaser trailer back in late September for the upcoming "Vikings" spinoff series:

The main series fell off in the later seasons. I'm not sure there's still an appetite for this spinoff series.