new zorro cartoon

The idea of taking a classic hero character and sticking him into a futuristic setting was OK for Batman Beyond, when only a couple of shows had done it, but, so many other shows have done taken this approach now (Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Ulysses 31, etc.) that it's almost cliche at this point.
 
This makes me wonder why nobody's tried to do a futuristic version of The Shadow. That would lend itself to the concept a lot better than Zorro.

It doesn't look great, but Rick Ungar and Sean Catherine Derek seem to be writing, so this will either be very good or very bad.
 
Then turnabout is fair play, because Bob Kane borrowed heavily from Zorro when he created Batman.



I'd pay to see that, but I'm not sure they'd do it right. The Shadow, unlike Batman or Zorro, would be diluted without a body count. He's supposed to be scary.

BKN has had this show in the pipeline for about a year now. The website reveals some cool stuff. There a page showing the costumes of past Zorros (the future Zorro's ancestors), and they all look stylized for the time in which they operated (the Zorro who was active in the 1920's wore a costume that looked like the one Douglas Fairbanks wore in the first movie, which shows they've done their homework, if nothing else). I'd like to see it, and it could be seriously cool. Along with Filmation releasing their Zorro/Lone Ranger package on DVD, the next year could be a good time for Zorro fans.
 
Well, that's a maybe. I'm not expecting yank-your-eyes-out visuals. This is BKN afterall, and the animation won't be great. But they can compensate for second-rate animation with good writing and design. Some of my all-time favorite all-time cartoons, like The Legend of Prince Valiant, Exo-Squad and Lupin The Third had animation that looks terribly stiff and dated today (and wasn't exactly state-of-the-art when they were first broadcast), but they are enjoyable nonetheless.
 
Desslar - a listing of the series episodes can be found by clicking here.

Also, the official Zorro.com press release for the series with some images can be found here.

Some VCD's of the series were released overseas and the WB released one volume of the series on DVD, titled "The First Encounter/Beastly Battles/High Seas Hero." If you check Amazon.com, you could pick up the DVD used for $3-4 after shipping.

-Joe!
 
When I was a kid I thought it would be cool if they made a modern Zorro where instead of writing a Z on people's shirts with a sword he would write a Z on their chest with a machine gun.
 
Thanks for the info. After checking out some images though, the character design seems pretty cheesy to me. I was hoping for a Batman:TAS style series.
 
The old Zorro cartoon still holds up better than some of these "modern" attempts.- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4Y...ms.rabroad.net/showthread.php?t=200831&page=4


I do hope you're joking since Zorro's "lair of the fox" and his secret passage under the mansion were the inspiration for the "Bat Cave."
So it's more like Batman who got the Zorro treatment.

"Zorro’s use of a mask to conceal his identity as Don Diego gave me the idea of giving Batman a secret identity…Bruce Wayne would be a man of means who put on a fa?ade of being effete. Zorro rode a black horse called Tornado and would enter a cave and exit from a grandfather clock in the living room. The bat-cave was inspired by this cave in Zorro. I didn’t want Batman to be a Superhero with superpowers…So I made Batman an ordinary human being; he is just an athlete who has the physical prowess of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (played the first Zorro), who was my all-time favorite hero in the movies.” –Bob Kane
 
Why is it exactly that their animation is so cheap looking?! I mean I'm sure they got as much budget as said... Studio B and yet this thing looks worse than Class of the Titans!
 
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