Zorro: Exclusive New Trailer for French Series Starring Jean Dujardin

IGN tin exclusively uncover the caller trailer for Zorro, a French-language TV bid reimagining of the iconic swashbuckling hero. The trailer tin beryllium seen via the embedded subordinate below.

Oscar victor Jean Dujardin (The Artist) plays the rubric relation successful this eight-episode series, subtitled successful English, that premieres June 30 exclusively successful the U.S. and Canada connected Kino Lorber’s MHz Choice, with 2 episodes and a “making of” peculiar debuting astatine motorboat followed by play episodes each Tuesday done August 11.

The authoritative synopsis beneath sheds airy connected what makes this mentation of Zorro antithetic from past movies and TV shows (besides being successful French, of course):

“Set successful 1821 against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Los Angeles, Don Diego de la Vega (Jean Dujardin) unexpectedly inherits the relation of politician pursuing his father’s death, lone to observe a metropolis drowning successful indebtedness and nether the grip of the almighty Don Emmanuel (Eric Elmosnino, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life.) Determined to reconstruct bid and bring captious h2o entree to the struggling community, Diego rapidly realizes that authorities unsocial cannot combat the corruption, exploitation, and increasing unrest surrounding him. Diego secretly revives his long-abandoned change ego for the archetypal clip successful 20 years, becoming the masked vigilante Zorro arsenic helium fights for the radical portion publically trying to govern the metropolis arsenic its conflicted mayor.

As Diego struggles to equilibrium civic enactment with his unsafe treble life, the lines betwixt the antheral and the story statesman to blur successful progressively analyzable ways. Zorro unexpectedly becomes a celebrated people leader crossed Los Angeles, arsenic the city’s citizens rally down the masked avenger much enthusiastically than its ain government. At the aforesaid time, Diego’s idiosyncratic beingness spirals into affectional chaos arsenic his woman Gabriella (Audrey Dana, Roman de Gare) becomes drawn to the enigma and passionateness surrounding Zorro, unaware that the masked fig and her hubby are the aforesaid man. Their tangled narration contributes to the series’ humor, romance, and affectional struggle arsenic Diego battles jealousy, secrecy, and the consequences of surviving arsenic 2 antithetic people.”

Based connected Johnston McCulley’s masked pulp hero, this Zorro bid was created and co-written by Benjamin Charbit, Noé Debré, and Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud and changeable wholly successful Spain. In summation to Dujardin, the formed besides includes Audrey Dana, Salvatore Ficarra, and Grégory Gadebois.

Zorro antecedently premiered connected France 2 and Paramount+ successful prime planetary territories.