Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, LA Confidential) will be writing the Django/Zorro film based on Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner‘s comic book series for Sony Pictures.

Tarantino and Wagner wrote the 7-issue comic book series for Dynamite Entertainment, which saw Jamie Foxx’s Django forming an alliance with Zorro.

Deadline details, “The project is in early development with Helgeland scripting a new story that follows on from the comic series. In that comic, Django continued to track despicable prey as bounty hunter, and developed a kinship with Don Diego de la Vega, who was played by Anthony Hopkins in the 1998 TriStar film The Mask of Zorro, where Don Diego passed on the Zorro mantle to Alejandro Murrieta (Antonio Banderas) in the 1998 Martin Campbell-directed film.”