Quentin Tarantino has a long list of unmade projects, among those a crossover between Django/Zorro – and here’s what happened to it. Quentin Tarantino has earned a place in film history thanks to his mastery of writing dialogues, his narrative and visual style, and his generous doses of violence and blood in every one of his movies, which have also made him one of the most controversial filmmakers. Tarantino has been around long enough to have a list of unmade projects, of which some would have had some interesting combinations of his work with other characters.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Tarantino has famously stated he will only make 10 movies before retiring, so there’s always a lot of anticipation and speculation around his projects, though many of them have ended up in development hell or Tarantino chose other projects over them. Among the many unmade Tarantino projects is a movie that would have brought together two different yet similar worlds: that of Zorro and the lead of Tarantino’s Western Django Unchained, all this based on the crossover comic book Django/Zorro by Tarantino and Matt Wagner. Django/Zorro spent years in limbo without any updates on the project, and it has now been confirmed to not be happening anymore.
Django/Zorro was published in 2015 and is the first comic book Tarantino picked Jerrod Carmichael to co-write a movie adaptation of Django/Zorro, while Jamie Foxx expressed interest in reprising the role and having Antonio Banderas return as Zorro, but there were no updates on the project after that.
In June 2022, in an interview with both Kill Bill movies are counted as one), but Django/Zorro won’t be it. While it would have been interesting to see the dynamic between Django and Zorro, it’s not exactly a necessary sequel or story, and it would be best to have a brand new, original Quentin Tarantino story as his final movie than a sequel/crossover.
