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CBS Developing Female-Led Zorro Reboot
https://deadline.com/2019/11/propaga...bs-1202775312/
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Shesus, what's going on?
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Regular people walk away because this is a virtue-signaling agenda rather than anything widely necessary for advancement. Those regular people don't particularly like having an equality agenda shoved down their throats like a guilt-burger when in fact most people have lived a lifestyle of treating people equally for many decades. Go woke, go broke. You know why? Because most people were "woke" in the first place already before some idiot had the audacity to put a show called "Dear White People" on Netflix. |
Zorro is public domain, right? The first Zorro story turned 100 years old recently.
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Another genderbent reboot?
How bloody original. |
Well, here's a P.C. reboot I didn't expect.
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Wow, how progressive and original!
Take male character and change him into female! It definitely speaks of great creative power and not just token attempt to jump on the "woke" bandwagon. Shame on those "creators". |
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Actually this is likely the most interesting thing they can do with the franchise, I mean who honestly cares about Zorro. Also she won't even be Zorro since the female Zorra also means skank/slut in Spanish so unless they're boneheaded she'd have a different name ergo a new character.
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They can come up with some nonsense about calling her by male name or some such. :lol: |
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When it fails: "I guess Zorro is just a tired property, nobody likes Zorro anymore."
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This isn't even funny anymore, tbh.
Then her name is gonna be changed to Zorra, I assume? And this begs the question: How long until a female Ninja Turtles reboot? |
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It's like only one step away. Also, I don't have anything against idea of a female Zorro in itself, but suggesting that it will make story better or it will be a "great female representation" is just hilarious. |
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At this rate every character will have either a female or black version of them. As if that automatically is gonna revive dead franchises or renew interest in them. I've never thought I'd miss the era where an anime character getting a haircut was considered character development... |
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is a female Zorro already. I'm sure I've seen talk of a few comic series with the female version recently.
So yeah some Hollywood exec slaps down a few trades of the sexy lady Zorro series in front of other execs and says "I've got an idea". Can't really fault them for that. |
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Technically speaking, this is really nothing new. Like Galactus said, there's already been a female Zorro with her own comic series.
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Dynamite's Lady Zorro appeared in 2012 Zorro Rides Again and had her own comic and a crossover with Lady Rawhide.
She was inspired by Zorro to fight injustice, but got Zorro got framed for her more brutal tactics and didn't approve of her vigilantism. https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/up...3968723-01.jpg American Mythology productions' Lady Zorro also have her own comic comic January 2020. AMP is known for having a more supernatural bent Zorro comic like Zorro Rise of the Old Gods The solicitations don't give us much about her besides being a all-new never seen before kinda deal, with supernatural stuff of course; looks like she's going to fight a evil priest and a coyote-demon army... https://www.albumcomics.com/114330-t...r-a-wolfer.jpg There's also a Lady Zorro in 1996 The Legend of Zorro episode 40 titled "My Fair Lady Zorro" She's a mysterious Zorro impersonator with Zorro skills and love for vigilantism. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/nJ...NPck3PDbQ=s412 Zorro's Black Whip from 1944. To avoid legal issues, Zorro is renamed Black Whip and his sister dons the mantle to avenge his death. http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/filmim...sblackwhip.jpg Queen of Swords from 2000. Short-lived TV series that's totes MacGoats not Zorro, please don't sue... They did get sued, but won since OG 1919 and 1920 Zorro is public domain. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...0Ng@@._V1_.jpg And maybe 2015 Zorro the Chronicles' Ines? Looking for pictures of various female Zorro's I came over a cgi show called Zorro the Chronicles and this picture, so maybe Ines' Diego's twin sister will don the costume in a episode? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkmRqHBW...jpg&name=small |
Hmm, I vaguely remember the Dynamite one, but haven't heard of the others. The closest to that I've ever seen was gay Zorro in The Gay Blade, a campy 70's movie with George Hamilton playing as both twins in a story where the original Zorro dies and passes the legacy down to his son(s). The one who inherits the mantle breaks his leg, and the gay brother takes over- with hilarious results.
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Female-Led Zorro Series From Robert and Rebecca Rodriguez (NBC)
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I mean, this one isn't even that weird or surprising. Sure they are.
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How brave!
How stunning! How original! How unique! How progressive! *barf* |
Sooo.... Is this a "modern" Zorro? It says she fights as a contemporary version of the "mythical" Zorro, so... Does that mean she's just taking up the mantle in modern times, to revive the myth? Or will there ACTUALLY be some connection to the "real" Zorro (meaning Diego De la Vega) somehow? Descendant, finds out he was real and follows footsteps, or something of the kind- if so, I might be interested. But if it's just a gender-bent revision? Ugh, please, no.
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Then...shouldn't it be...Zorra?
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Its gonna be on the CW
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Well, yes that WOULD be a bit problematic, but as I pointed out, that would specify a female, and the name Zorro is meant to conjure an image of mystery and secretiveness. Having the name changed to reflect her gender kind of takes away from that. You have to take into account the history of the character. He goes back to the early 1900's story wise, with his first appearance being a novel titled The Curse of Capistrano. He was written to fit the old noir pulp heroes of the era. There's a certain expectation that the name reflects that kind of hero.
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So, two birds with one stone. :lol: |
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