Zorro 2.0 will reimagine the character as a modern-day hacker!

Alex Rivera will write and direct ”Zorro 2.0” for Sobini Films.

According to Deadline, the film “reimagines the iconic character as Oscar de la Vega, a young, undocumented hacker known as ‘z0rr0.’ While fighting back against a secret government unit that attacked his mother, he discovers a high-tech conspiracy that threatens not only his family but the world”.

“I’ve always been interested in films that address real-world issues through genre,” Rivera told the trade. “This project is an opportunity to connect Zorro—the original masked avenger—to today’s border wars, a conflict in which immigrant families are pitted against regimes of hi-tech surveillance and government control. ‘Zorro 2.0’ will be visually elevated, socially grounded, sci-fi cinema, and I’m thrilled to be working with Sobini to get this vision on the screen.”

This is an unrelated project to the “Zorro” project being developed at NBC with Robert Rodriguez spearheading and Sofia Vergara starring.