Zorro is a Spanish action-adventure television series produced by Secuoya Studio and starring Miguel Bernardeau.[1] Based on the character created by Johnston McCulley, the series debuted on Prime Video on January 19, 2024 in Latin America and the United States, and debuted on January 25 in Spain, Andorra and Portugal.[2] The production, filmed from summer 2022[3] to early 2023[4] in the Canary Islands in Spain, represents a "bold reinterpretation" of classic hero El Zorro.[5]
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| Created by | Carlos Portela |
| Based on | Characters by Johnston McCulley |
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| Country of origin | Spain |
| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Running time | 52 minutes |
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| Network | Amazon Prime Video |
| Release | January 19, 2024 |
Plot
editZorro is set in 1834 and follows Diego de la Vega, a young landowner with a personal vendetta who also masquerades as Zorro, a masked vigilante who defends California's oppressed.[6]
Cast
editThe cast list includes:[7]
- Miguel Bernardeau as Diego de la Vega / Zorro
- Renata Notni as Lolita Márquez[8]
- Rodolfo Sancho as Gobernador Pedro Victoria[8]
- Dalia Xiuhcoatl as Nah-Lin / Fake Zorro[9]
- Paco Tous as Bernardo
- Peter Vives as Janus Carter[9]
- Elia Galera as Lucía Márquez
- Andrés Almeida as Tadeo Márquez[9]
- Emiliano Zurita as Enrique Sánchez de Monasterio[8]
- Chacha Huang as Mei
- Joel Bosqued as Samael[10]
- Francisco Reyes as Vanderveen[9]
- Mireia Mambo as Harriet Jones
- Estibalitz Ruiz as Carmen de la Madrid[11]
- Ana Layevska as Irina Ivanova[12]
- Eva Camacho as Margarita
- Christian Vázquez as Ramírez
- Alosian Vivancos as Francisco de la Madrid
- Toni Zenet as Doctor Ros
- Oleg Kricunova as Andreyevich
- Carlos Wu as Tchang
- Fele Martínez as Don Antonio
- Cristo Fernández as the previous Zorro, Nah-Lin's elder brother[9]
- Cecilia Suárez as Guadalupe[13]
- Luis Tosar as Alejandro de la Vega[9]
Episodes
edit| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [2] | |
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| 1 | "The Chosen One" | Javier Quintas[2] | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024[a] | |
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One night, Alejandro de la Vega fights three unknown men masked. Zorro helps him and kills one of three men. But after Zorro left, Alejandro is killed by an unknown killer. Soon after, Zorro is gravely wounded by soldiers under Gobernador, (or Governor), Pedro Victoria who orders to his second in command the captain Monasterio to burn the church where Zorro was hidden. Blocked, Zorro commits a suicide. His friends, the indians, take his body. Don Diego de la Vega, Alejandro's son leaves Spain and returns to California after he learnt his father's death. He finds Lolita his love interest and his family and his friend Bernardo. After having meet Cuervo Nocturno, Diego finally accepts to become Zorro to protect innocent people and serve the justice, but Nah-Lin the young sister of the first Zorro swears to avenge. | |||||
| 2 | "Inheritance" | Javier Quintas | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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Nah-Lin fights Diego and takes Zorro's mantle. Later, Diego and Lolita are taken as prisoners by a bandit and his gang. He wants Zorro or he will kill all hostages. He reveals that his father was a soldier killed by the first Zorro. The manager reveals that the father of bandit was a corrupt soldier. Listening this, the bandit kills him, Nah-Lin as Zorro arrives and fights him. Gobernador Victoria sends Monasterio and his soldiers to resolve the problem. The bandit is killed but Lolita is wounded. Diego saves her and later creates a new mantle. He stops the bandits and gives the money to poors. | |||||
| 3 | "The Bet" | Jorge Saavedra | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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Diego as Zorro helps Mei a young chinese who has been sold to Francisco Ramirez. Diego discovers that Ramirez is a slaver and he could be implicated in Alejandro's death. Later, Zorro returns to Ramirez's home but is captured. Ramirez unmasks him and is amused to discover that Diego is Zorro. He prepares to kill him for everything and his father's betrayal but Ramirez's house is attacked. | |||||
| 4 | "Revenge" | Jorge Saavedra | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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Nah-Lin kills Ramirez and wounds Diego leaving dying. Mei finds him and heals him with Bernardo's help. She discovers that Diego is Zorro and becomes one of his friends. Diego goes to find Nah-Lin to convince her that she follows the wrong path. But soldiers find them and they flee but some Nah-lin's men are captured. Hearing about his brother's death, Jose Antonio Ramirez laughs and decides to go in California. Samael, a professionnal killer is approached by John Marc Zeck and engaged by Vanderveen to accomplish a mission. | |||||
| 5 | "The Execution" | Javier Quintas | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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Having recovered of her wounds, Lolita says that she will marry Monasterio after he captures Zorro. Nah-Lin captures Jose Ramirez and asks her men or he will die. Diego convinces her to free him. Monasterio finds him and takes him to Gobernador Victoria's home, but he kills Ramirez soon after because he promised to sold the mines to Andreyevich and his partner Irina Ivanova. Later, Diego and Nah-Lin teams up to free the Indians. Diego learns Victoria's plan and thanks to his friends reveals the sold. | |||||
| 6 | "Mask Games" | Javier Quintas | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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Victoria is forced to sold the mines publicly. The mines are won and sold to the Chinese led by Mr Tchang, Mei's former boss. Diego is kidnapped by the Bear's clan, a group of Californians who want to free the California. They reveal him that his father was one of their members. Diego discovers that Francisco Ramirez was one of them too. Nah-Lin tries to kill Monasterio because he killed one of her friends forced by Victoria. But Lolita injures her and she is captured. Diego discovers the cart that the Bear's clan has used to kidnap him. He thinks that Tadeo, Lolita's father is a member of the clan. | |||||
| 7 | "The Myth" | Jorge Saavedra | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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One of Nah-Lin's followers finds Diego and asks him to free her or he will reveal that he is Zorro. Diego makes a plan to free Nah-Lin but not everything goes as planned. Nah-Lin is finally free but swears to take her revenge if Diego continues to be Zorro. Andreyevich furious to have been betrayed by Victoria kills him but he is betrayed and killed by Irina who becomes her own leader and she makes the rumors that Zorro killed them. During Gobernador Victoria's funeral, Monasterio becomes the new Gobernador and swears to capture Zorro. | |||||
| 8 | "The Wedding" | Jorge Saavedra | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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Nah-Lin discovers that Lolita is Diego's weakness and planifies to spread the blood during her marriage. But Diego as Zorro kidnaps her to protect her. Finally, Lolita frees herself and Nah-Lin decides to attack Lolita's home to take food. After a brief battle, Lolita and Nah-Lin are the only survivors. Lolita wounds Nah-Lin and prepares to kill her but Diego as Zorro stops her and flees with Nah-Lin. They decide to do a death fight to decide who will be Zorro once and for all. Nah-Lin is about to kill Diego, but when she sees the fox's spirit in his eyes, she redeems herself and renounces to be Zorro. The Bear's clan asks to Diego to kill Monasterio in one month as a proof that he is worthy to be one of them. Meanwhile, Samael and Zeck meet Guadalupe, Alejandro's former love who planifies to take her legacy. Finally, Lolita and Monasterio marry and Diego is left heartbroken. | |||||
| 9 | "Unmasked" | José Luis Alegría | Javier Quintas/Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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Lolita reveals to Diego that she knows that he is Zorro. She discovered it when he stopped her to kill Nah-Lin. Diego reveals her that the Bear's clan is risponsible of Alejandro's death and that they force him to kill Monasterio. She accepts to help him. They unmask almost all main members : first Francisco Diaz de la Madrid and his sister Carmen. Diego as Zorro kills Francisco in a fight and marks Carmen with a Z on her face. Then, he unmasks the padre Don Antonio. Nah-Lin avenges his brother as blinding Don Antonio. Diego is always persuaded that Tadeo is a member of the Bear's clan, but he is stabbed by Lucia Marquez, Lolita's mother who is revealed to be the true member and leader of the Bear's clan and the murderer of his father. He flees just in time before she shoots him. Meanwhile, Guadalupe makes Samael becomes his son and Samael kills Zeck judging useless once his work done. They arrive soon after to Los Angeles. | |||||
| 10 | "The Three Funeral Dance" | Javier Quintas | Carlos Portela | January 19, 2024 | |
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Diego meets Samael and Guadalupe, Bernardo is shocked to see her after all these years. Diego guesses that they are crook. Lolita is furious against Diego after he tried to kill his father but he reveals her that her mother is a member of the Bear's clan and the murderer of his father. Lolita do not believe it but Diego convinces her and planifies a plan to stop this threat once and for all. Diego dressed as Zorro reveals himself during Lolita's party and fights Monasterio. Diego kills him. After this, Lucia reveals herself to Diego as well as Carmen, they guest him to join them and the Bear's Clan, revealing that they have a little army. But Diego uses a gun calling soldiers and Monasterio is revealed to be still alive, it was Diego's plan to destroy the clan. A battle begins, Carmen succeeds to escape, Lucia fights Diego and reveals him that his father wanted to sell them and the California to the Americans and to Vanderveen and she killed him for this. She is about to kill Diego but Lolita saves him as shooting her mother, injuring her. The clan is defunct and Lucia is arrested. Lolita dismisses Diego, because even he was right about Lucia, he has destroyed her family but she promises him that his secret will be in safety with her. Tadeo joins her lover Irina but she kills him and makes it as a suicide. Carmen is wanted, Lucia is sent in jail but is freed soon after and allies with Irina. They become partners and possibly lovers. Diego goes with Mei to New York to see Vanderveen, before his departure he gives a gift to Nah-Lin, she becomes Red Snake and they become friends. Two months later, Vanderveen wants to kill Diego unaware that he listens it as Zorro. | |||||
Production
editFilming
editZorro took eight months to shoot, from July 2022[3] to February 2023,[4] in the Canary Islands. Cameras shot in the municipalities of Las Palmas, Arucas, Gáldar, San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Telde, as well as in Del Nublo Park and the Tejera volcanic basin.[3] The Sioux City Park on the island of Gran Canaria, meanwhile, was closed to the public for the duration of filming, in order to build the main sets and shoot part of the series.[14]
The series became available on Amazon Prime Video on January 19, 2024.[15]
Release
editOn July 17, 2023, Amazon Prime Video unveiled the first image of Miguel Bernardeau in the Zorro costume.[5] The series was made available on Prime Video on January 19, 2024 in Latin America and the United States and was made available on January 25 in Spain, Andorra and Portugal.[2]
Notes
edit- ^ The series was released on Prime Video on January 19, 2024 in Latin America and the United States, and on January 25 in Spain, Andorra and Portugal
References
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- ^ a b c "Secuoya Studios Begins Principal Photography on Zorro Series". TTV News. July 29, 2022. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
- ^ a b Hopewell, John (January 25, 2023). "'Zorro' Producer Secuoya Studios Unveils 2023 Production Slate (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
- ^ a b Quinteros, Paulo (July 17, 2023). "Prime Video presentó la primera imagen de "Zorro", su nueva serie basada en el clásico héroe". La Tercera. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
- ^ "2024 Zorro TV Show: All 14 Actors in Main Cast (Photos)". January 22, 2024.
- ^ "Zorro". C&T Mobs, NoStatusQuo Studios, Secuoya Studios. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
- ^ a b c Pardillos, David (January 25, 2024). "Quién es quién en 'Zorro', la serie de Prime Video: de Rodolfo Sancho a Miguel Bernardeau". Infobae.
- ^ a b c d e f Didyme-Dôme, André (January 18, 2024). "Crítica: Zorro – Episodio 1". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
- ^ Llergo, Isabel (February 4, 2024). "Crítica de 'Zorro' en La 1: feminismo, racismo e inmigración en una serie con trasfondo social". Mía.
- ^ "2024 Zorro TV Show: All 14 Actors in Main Cast (Photos)". January 22, 2024.
- ^ "2024 Zorro TV Show: All 14 Actors in Main Cast (Photos)". January 22, 2024.
- ^ Hernández Navarro, Salma Jael (January 21, 2024). "Cecilia Suárez forma parte de la nueva serie de Prime Video: 'Zorro', ¿qué personaje interpreta?". Milenio.
- ^ Timon (June 10, 2022). "A 50th birthday gift for Gran Canaria's iconic Sioux City, as production begins on Prime Zorro reboot". The Canary News. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
- ^ "Le nouveau Zorro de Prime Video se dévoile". Premiere.fr (in French). July 19, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2023.