Doomsday’s Zorro

Already renewed for an additional 4 seasons.

I knew Doomsday was working on a Zorro show. I just had the wrong one.

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An eponymous gender-swapped reimagination of the classic masked vigilante Zorro is in the works at CBS from CBS Studios, sources tell Deadline. Zorro hails from filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, his writer-director sister Rebecca Rodriguez and Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens’ Propagate.

John Hlavin (The Man Who Fell To Earth) has joined the project, replacing the previously attached Sean Tetra as co-writer alongside Rebecca Rodriguez. The duo will pen a new original script for CBS.

In this contemporary take, a young Latinx woman discovers that her long-deceased father was the legendary hero Zorro. She takes on his masked persona to defend the desperate citizens of her Austin, Texas community from the wealthy forces seeking to exploit them.

The Zorro IP continues to be a hot commodity with multiple TV and film projects in various stages of development. To name a few, the French series Zorro, starring Jean Dujardin as the masked swordsman, premiered on Paramount+ earlier this month. Before that, Prime Video’s Zorro debuted in January with Miguel Ángel Bernardeau Duato leading the Spanish cast.

Robert Rodriguez’s close friend and collaborator Wilmer Valderrama has been developing a Zorro series of his own at Disney+ since 2021 with writer Bryan Cogman joining the fold last spring. Valderrama executive produces and stars in the Disney Branded Television project—which is actively in development— follows privileged caballero Diego De La Vega, who returns to his hometown of El Pueblo de Los Angeles following a family tragedy. There, he discovers a culture of corruption and injustice that will lead him to take on the mantle of the masked vigilante Zorro — America’s first true superhero. With different studios at the helm, it’s doubtful Valderrama and Rodriguez could create a super Zorro universe but one never knows.

We all grew up on 50’s Zorro.