Old School Superhero Movie Round-Up: What's Going On With Zorro, Hercules & The Lone Ranger?

Old School Superhero Movie Round-Up: What's Going On With Zorro, Hercules & The Lone Ranger?: "

If it goes through, just wait for all the jokes about the Ranger's status updates to follow.

If there’s a club of unofficial comic superheroes, I’d say Hercules, Zorro and the Lone Ranger would most definitely be card-carrying, exclusive-jacket-wearing members. None of them started in comics, per
se, but they all might as well have. Thus, I figure any news about movies
starring these dudes would be of interest to you Comic Vine maniacs.
Here’s the round up…

• Zorro’s getting a DARK KNIGHT RETURNS style transplantation
  in this ZORRO REBORN project that Movie Line says Fox is developing (and what better studio to develop a Zorro movie than Fox? ¿Me equivoco?) Maybe a more apt comparison would be to BOOK OF ELI because this earlier-in-development would be about an all-new
  hombre - - not Don Diego de la Vega - - who’d ditch the rapiers, whips and
  do-gooding M.O. for a straight-up revenge story across the waste land == TEASER==
• Hercules might be coming to the big
  screen with X3 director Brett Ratner
  guiding him. Don’t get confused, though - - this isn’t the Prince of Power who’s
  pals with Amadeus Cho. Instead, this would be an adaptation of Radical Publishing’s
  more grounded, intense take on the myths, HERCULES: THE THRACIAN WARS. Vulture doesn’t
  have much else to go on, but I expect it’ll be shot on those abstract, digital
  back-lot that Greek-themed projects demand these day (300, IMMORTALS, CLASH OF THE TITANS, et cetera…)
• Lastly, Johnny Depp’s Tonto might
  have finally found his masked man according to Deadline. SOCIAL NETWORK star and almost-Batman, Armie Hammer, is reportedly
  in talks to play the Lone Ranger in
  the eponymous revival Gore Verbinski’s developing. While I’m not that
  invested in the cowboy with silver bullets, I’ll say that this would be the
  biggest no-brainer casting, ironically, since Christian Bale became Batman.
  Just look Hammer, up. Could you get more all-American than that?

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