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The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 movie directed by New Zealander Martin Campbell. The movie stars Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and is a sequel to 1998's , also directed by Campbell and starring Banderas and Zeta-Jones. The film was shot in New Zealand and Mexico.

Plot summary

In 1850, after fighting to help California become the 31st U.S. state, Zorro promises his wife Elena that he'll give up his secret identity and go back to living as Alejandro de la Vega. However, he has second thoughts when an old villain makes plans to unleash a threat that has been years in the making.

The setting is prior to the US Civil War but the train use modern couplers which were invented in 1873 and not in widespread use until 1900.Despite taking place ten years prior to Southern succession, the Confederacy is already in existence and planning war against the North. In addition, the Confederacy is depicted as an organization within the Union instead of an attempted-independent nation.At the end when Zorro and Elena are being remarried the priest says "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Until recently the expression ended with "the Holy Ghost"In the first movie, the Mask of Zorro, Zorro's name was Alejandro Murrieta. De la Vega was Elena's last name and the name of the original Zorro, Diego de la Vega. It could be that Alejandro purposely changed his last name to that of his wife's to carry on the name of his mentor, played by Anthony Hopkins.