Banderas says he’s open to return as Zorro

Academy Award nominee Antonio Banderas says he’s open to reprise the Zorro role should a reboot be made.

Banderas played a role of Alejandro Murrieta, aka Zorro in 1998’s “The Mask of Zorro” and “The Legend of Zorro” in 2005. Both films received postive reception and went on to gross close to $400 million internationally.

Banderas ready to pass the Zorro mantle

Speaking to Comicbook.com, the 62-year-old actor said he was open to playing Zorro in a new franchise film but mainly wants to pass the mantle to the next actor.

In the first film, “The Mask of Zorro,” Anthony Hopkins’ character, Don Diego de la Vegas, passes the mantle of Zorro over to role to Banderas’ character Alejandro Murrieta. 

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“I would consider that possibility. Why not?” Banderas said “I think during today’s interviews I said something like that to somebodyI said that if they call it Zorro, I will do what Anthony Hopkins did in the first movie and so give the torch to somebody else,” he said.

In 2021, Banderas told USA Today that director Quentin Tarantino approached him about a crossover between his 2012 film “Django Unchained” and the Zorro franchise. 

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“He just came up to me and I was like, ‘In your hands? Yeah, man!’” Banderas added.

It remains to be seen if we will get another Zorro film

“Because Quentin just has that nature to do those type of movies and give them quality. Even if they are based on those types of B-movies of the ’60s and ’70s, he can take that material and do something really interesting,” Banderas said.

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