A new gender-swapped Zorro project may have found a home on a new network.

Back in 2021, Robert Rodriguez announced he was teaming up with his sister, Rebecca Rodriguez, on a new Zorro TV series that would re-imagine the legendary movie and television character as a female vigilante. The show was originally pitched to NBC, but it looks like the project is changing hands and is now in development at The CW. After a pilot is produced, the network will evaluate the series and decide whether they will pick it up.

Robert Rodriguez has been telling the Zorro story for a while. He was attached to direct 1998’s The Mask of Zorro and cast Antonio Banderas as the title role before leaving the feature project. In TV, he currently serves as an executive producer-director of The Book of Boba Fett on Disney+ . He previously developed and executive produced the series adaptation of his movie From Dusk Till Dawn for his TV network El Rey and also executive produced the Spy Kids animated series offshoot for Netflix. He recently directed an episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian.

Additionally, it has been confirmed that Sean Tretta (Mayans M.C., 12 Monkeys) will join the Rodriguez siblings as a writer on the new show. He will also serve as Zorro’s day-to-day showrunner with both Robert and Rebecca serving as executive producers. Rebecca will direct.

In the CW series, which follows a young Latinx woman seeking vengeance for her father’s murder who joins a secret society, adopting the outlaw persona of Zorro. Modern Family star Sofia Vergara was originally an executive producer on the NBC project, but will not be involved with The CW series.

Meanwhile, over at Disney+, a project based on the same character announced last month is proceeding. That 70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama is attached to star in and executive produce a live-action Zorro series for Disney Entertainment. The show, presented in a contemporary telenovela style, would star Valderrama as Don Diego de la Vega (and his masked swashbuckling alter ego) in a period piece set in the days of Spanish California. Valderrama and Gary Marsh, the outgoing president and chief creative officer of Disney Branded Television would executive produce along with John Gertz of Zorro Productions Inc.

Zorro (which is Spanish for ‘fox’) was first a pulp fiction character created in 1919 by writer Johnston McCulley. He is typically portrayed as a masked vigilante who defends ordinary people from tyrannical and corrupt officials. His signature outfit (besides the mask) is a black cape and hat. He uses his sword to leave his trademark ‘Z’ emblem on his humiliated victims. Disney produced a Zorro series starring Guy Williams from 1957-1959.