” But who are you ? Well, Zorro, I haven’t been gone that long.” The trailer which reveals the first images of the new series “Zorro”, with Jean Dujardin on display, sets the tone this Tuesday. The tone will be irreverent and comic, like his cult role in OSS A_117.
“The time has come for Zorro to return. Zorro with Jean Dujardin, September 6 on Paramount +,” specifies the account of the VOD platform.
We can see Don Diego de la Vega, alias Jean Dujardin, putting away his horses, who finally returns to administer justice at a gallop. He always signs his name at the point of the sword. We are relieved…
Broadcast at the start of the school year
The masked hero in fact became mayor of Los Angeles in the 1820s, in this series which will be broadcast “later this year” on Paramount + before being broadcast on France Télévisions, it is indicated, without further ado. details on the calendar.
During these eight episodes co-created by screenwriter and director Noé Debré (“Parliament”, “The Last of the Jews”…), the legendary Don Diego de la Vega is forced to take out his masked avenger costume to fight a formidable man of local business.
Jean Dujardin will portray this Zorro struggling with the pangs of double identity and who had hung up his cape and sword twenty years ago. Audrey Dana, Salvatore Ficarra, André Dussollier, Éric Elmosnino and Grégory Gadebois complete the cast of this series co-produced by Paramount + and France Télévisions, according to the press release.
A fictional character created at the end of the 1910s, Zorro has already had several lives on the big and small screens. He was the subject of a legendary black and white series broadcast in the United States at the end of the 1950s. In 1998, the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas also lent his features to him in the feature film “The Mask of Zorro” by Martin Campbell, alongside actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
