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We have seen the future, and it has a big letter 'Z' slashed into the wall.

Disney is bringing back "The Lone Ranger" with the help of Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski, and now 20th Century Fox is looking to revitalize another classic hero with "Zorro Reborn," according to the Los Angeles Times.

The most recent cinematic adventures of Zorro starred Antonio Banderas, who portrated the swashbuckling crusader in Sony Pictures' "The Mask of Zorro" (1998) and "The Legend of Zorro" (2005).

But this new Zorro will be a whole new kind of hero as "Reborn" sets its sights on the future.

"Zorro Reborn" takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, in which Zorro is reimagined as a revenge-minded vigilante in a western story that has echoes of both Sergio Leone and "No Country for Old Men."

The film, which is still in early development, will be directed by Rpin Suwannath, a previsualization specialist who worked on a number of the "X-Men," "Matrix" and "Chronicles of Narnia" movies. The script comes from Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, the screenwriters behind the Dracula reboot "Harker" at Warner Bros.

No word on casting yet, but this should prove to be quite the showcase for some hot young actor... and a hot young actress, as this new masked man will need the Catherine Zeta-Jones to his Antonio Banderas.

Bring on the apocalypse, and bring on "Zorro!"