Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics have announced that Quentin Tarantino’s Django Freeman – star of 2012’s Django Unchained – is to team up with the legendary masked adventurer Zorro for a new comic book series Django/Zorro, which Tarantino is co-plotting alongside writer Matt Wagner (Zorro, The Shadow).
“I’m very very excited about both this story and the opportunity to work with Matt,” said Tarantino, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Django Unchained. “It was reading his Zorro stories that convinced me what a good idea it was to join these two icons together. And the story idea we came up with is thrilling, and I think will be an exciting new chapter for both characters.”
“This project is an absolute thrill,” adds Wagner. “When Quentin and I first met, it felt like we’d known each other for years. The give-and-take energy of our initial story sessions was just incredible! It’s a particular buzz to be writing Zorro once again…and especially to team him up with the magnetic lead character from Quentin’s most straight-up heroic movie, Django Unchained! The Wild West is never gonna be the same once these two come to town!”
Django/Zorro is set for release later this year.
