Antonio Banderas’ ‘The Mummy’ Replacement Is Officially Back on Free Streaming
Antonio Banderas’s 1998 adventure film *The Mask of Zorro* is back on free streaming on Pluto. Its masked-hero story, energetic sword fights and romantic chemistry give it some of the swashbuckling appeal associated with *The Mummy*, while the film also helped establish Banderas as a Hollywood leading man.
Set in 19th-century California, the film follows outlaw Alejandro Murrieta, trained by the imprisoned Zorro, Don Diego de la Vega, to take on corrupt officials. Banderas stars alongside Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones, with Martin Campbell directing; the film later inspired aspects of Banderas’s Puss in Boots character and spawned a 2005 sequel.
In short
- *The Mask of Zorro* is streaming free on Pluto.
- Banderas stars with Hopkins and Zeta-Jones.
- The role helped shape his later Puss in Boots performance.
Explained simply
The Mask of Zorro is an adventure film set in 19th-century California, when the region was under Mexican rule. It follows Alejandro Murrieta, an outlaw who learns to fight from Don Diego de la Vega, the imprisoned man behind the masked identity of Zorro.
Antonio Banderas plays Alejandro, with Anthony Hopkins as Don Diego and Catherine Zeta-Jones in a leading role. Director Martin Campbell’s film helped establish Banderas as a Hollywood leading man and later had a sequel, The Legend of Zorro.
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