Antonio Banderas thinks Tom Holland would be a great Zorro in a reboot | CNN
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In the age of reboots, revivals and prequels, Antonio Banderas is sharing thoughts on who would make a wonderful decision to abide by in his masked footsteps as the famous Zorro.
The actor, who played the swashbuckling hero in 1998’s “The Mask of Zorro” and sequel “The Legend of Zorro” in 2005, stated his “Uncharted” costar Tom Holland would be a fantastic suit for the role, in a movie interview released Saturday with Comicbook.com.
“If they called me to do ‘Zorro,’ I would do what Anthony Hopkins did for me, which is to move the torch,” Banderas said when asked about the risk of undertaking a third film in the “Zorro” franchise, referring to how Hopkins passed the mantle down to him in the initially film.
“He’s so energetic and pleasurable,” Banderas claimed of Holland. “He’s acquired this spark, much too.”
The “Zorro” films, which were directed by Martin Campbell, costarred Catherine Zeta-Jones. The first movie was section of a string of crossover successes in the 1990s for Banderas, which incorporated “Desperado,” “Evita” and “Philadelphia,” after he got his begin performing in Spanish cinema with director Pedro Almodovar.
Though the “Zorro” franchise at the moment has no reliable jobs in development, Banderas is presently doing press for a further sequel, the upcoming DreamWorks animated movie “Puss in Boots: The Past Wish.”
In that movie, Banderas all over again voices the debonair feline character he originated in the “Shrek” films, next 2011’s characteristic-size “Puss in Boots.”