Trivia / The Legend of Zorro

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $75 million. Box office, $46,464,023 (domestic), $142,400,065 (worldwide). This was the last hurrah for the Zorro movies, being critically derided. No further cinematic adaptations of Zorro have come up since. Martin Campbell, however, got up on his feet the very next year with Daniel Craig's first James Bond film, Casino Royale.
• Channel Hop: Due to TriStar Pictures being reduced in profile following the flop of Godzilla (1998), this film was instead released under the Columbia Pictures name.
• Creator Backlash: In a 2021 Reddit AMA, Martin Campbell admitted he didn't feel it was as good as the first film.
• Franchise Killer: Despite having the same actors reprising their roles and the same director as The Mask of Zorro onboard (though the scriptwriting team was completely changed, with the arrival of Alex Kurtzman most notably), the film got overwhelmingly negative reviews and is seen as the main reason why the Zorro franchise in film has not seen any revivals or reboots for well over a decade.
• Sequel Gap: This was released seven years after The Mask of Zorro.
• You Look Familiar:
  • Pedro Armendariz Jr. plays Don Hector in Mask and Governor Riley in Legend.
  • In addition, Tony Amendola, who played Don Luis in Mask, plays Father Quintero here, seemingly as a reference to the name of the villain in the Tyrone Power film being Don Luis Quintero.

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