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Sony Pictures is moving forward with a Django/Zorro film, hiring Brian Helgeland to write a new story that continues the Tarantino/Matt Wagner 7-issue Dynamite crossover; Tarantino has given his blessing but won’t direct, and the project will focus on a young Zorro as development begins.
Antonio Banderas recalls being told in Hollywood that Latinos and Blacks were destined for villain roles, a stereotype he countered by becoming Zorro and later a heroic figure in films like Puss in Boots, illustrating the shift in how Latino actors are written into leading roles.
Antonio Banderas recalls being told, when he arrived in Hollywood, that Latinos (and Black actors) were only to play villains, a stereotype he challenged by later taking heroic roles such as Zorro and expanding the range of Latino representation in cinema.