Robin Hood Reboot: Avengers Style

[MadVillainy]

Too quote "To Be Continued" in the comments section of Collider: "That's one of the funniest, and saddest, things I've read on this site."

The End Is Nigh: Sony Buys AVENGERS-Style Shared Universe ROBIN HOOD Pitch for $1 Million
by Adam Chitwood

That’s it, we’ve reached peak “shared universe” stupidity. Game over. Thanks for playing. Sony is poised to purchase a pitch for a Robin Hood riff called Hood for a whopping $1 million against $2 million. Why so much for an adaptation of well-worn territory, you ask? Heat Vision reports that the pitch involves positioning the film as a franchise starter with an Avengers-style universe revolving around Robin Hood’s band of Merry Men. You read that correctly. Sony is developing a rival to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the form of a Merry Men Universe featuring Friar Tuck, Will Scarlett, and of course Little John. More after the jump.

The “Avengers-style universe” idea for a Robin Hood franchise is dumb in and of itself, but it gets better/worse. Heat Vision reports that the tone of Hood is described as being in the vein of Mission: Impossible and the recent Fast & Furious movies, which is in keeping with the theme of the “team” aspect of the potential franchise. The pitch comes from Corey Goodman and Jeremy Lott, who are responsible for a sci-fi project set up at Warner Bros. called Lore. Additionally, Goodman wrote the gritty actioner Priest as well as the upcoming Vin Diesel-fronted fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter and the Underworld reboot.

The story of Robin Hood, of course, comes from English folklore and revolves around a morally ambiguous hero who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. The most recent high-profile adaptation was from director Ridley Scoot, whose 2010 film Robin Hood starred Russell Crowe and turned the tale into a gritty adventure epic that essentially told the origin story of the hero.

It’s not enough that filmmakers like David Fincher and Steven Spielberg have trouble getting mid-range dramas financed, but to see studios make big gambles on stuff like this—again, an Avengers-style shared universe Robin Hood series—is depressing on so many levels. There’s always the possibility that Hood could be good, but it’s disheartening to see that pitches like this are what get studios into bidding wars. It’s no wonder some of our best filmmakers are moving to television.

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[Pink Ranger]

Yeah, I've been waiting for that Alan A Dale solo movie for years.

 

[Orb]

R.I.P Stand alone films.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Little John will break records. It's a dark and gritty take on him.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Yeah, I've been waiting for that Alan A Dale solo movie for years.

If it was about the Disney rooster version, I'd be all for it.

 

[Deserana]

 

[Quasimod0]

I'm gonna do my best to support the Friar Tuck solo film. I wanna see it sitting pretty in the top ten films of all time.

 

[Boom]

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Eventually we'll just have a shared SONY-verse where Spider-man fights zombies alongside the rebooted Ghostbusters while Robin Hood time travels to form an Avengers-style team to take down The Smurfs. With cameos by the stars of 21 Jump Street.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Christan Slater in The Return of Will Scarlet please.

 

[Donut]

Nic Cage as The White Ghost

 

[Deserana]

What made Avengers great was the clear years of planning that went into it. If they've done that then okay lets see how it goes but I see this more as a "hey wouldnt this be cool!" with no thought.

 

[MadVillainy]

Also all the Avengers solo films featured larger than life characters that can hold their own film/film series

This Robin Hood thing is just stupid because the Merry Men were never meant to stand on their own. They're meant to be together.

To me it's like changing their origin and making Ninja Turtles prequels about the 4 of them separately before they come back together. Or making solo prequels about every X-Men member before making an X-Men movie.

Just not a smart decision.

A Robin Hood reboot could be cool. The gritty approach didnt really work for the RIdley Scott movie I heard. BUt making it a fun action adventure similar to Sherlock Holmes or Pirates of the Carribean could be cool

 

[kvz5]

 

[Donut]

A Robin Hood reboot could be cool. The gritty approach didnt really work for the RIdley Scott movie I heard. BUt making it a fun action adventure similar to Sherlock Holmes or Pirates of the Carribean could be cool

A Men In Tights Sequel I say

 

[kedrell]

Little John will break records. It's a dark and gritty take on him.

 

[Gort Baringa]

Original and best Avengers star Patrick Macnee's bio says that he is actually a descendent of Robin Hood: http://www.patrickmacnee.com/bio

But, sad IMO anyway, I am assuming that you mean the Marvel comic Avengers version! To me, Steed and Mrs. Peel will ALWAYS immortally be ... The Avengers!

 

[Aztec]

I....ummm...well...uhhhh....

 

[Octoberist]

i laughed when i first read this. It's almost like a parody.

 

[kedrell]

R.I.P Stand alone films.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Well, this is Sony we're talking about here so I know I can't wait for The Sheriff's Six.

 

[godisawesome]

...okay, here's an idea how this could work out: Guy of Gisborne is the focus of one film where he's the evil counterpart to Robin leading an outlaw band in the service of the Sheriff of Nottingham or Archbishop of York (King Richard and Prince John's half brother). Friar Tuck's origin is set in the Crusader states and features him as young man who eventually becomes disillusioned with them and heads to England, solving a crime like Brother Baskerville. Maid Marian gets a film all to herself as a spy in Nottingham. Little John is shown in a revenge story after someone burns down his house, killing his parents. Robin Hood himself is a minor but major supporting character in all of these, making usage of his disguise skills and trickster nature to make the most of his brief appearances.

...I may have been planning a book series roughly along these lines...

 

[Donut]

Is this even a Universe thing ? Unless he teams up with like Maximus from Gladiator coming back from the dead. Characters like Little John are standard in Robin Hood movies

 

[The Guard]

Isn't the classic story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men somewhat compartmentalized? Don't they have like, solo adventures over the course of their lives and kind of come and go as a "band"?

Yes, this is the latest craze, but I don't see how this is any worse an idea than anything else out there. A Friar Tuck movie or a Little John movie could actually be pretty cool.

More Robin Hood is always a good thing.

 

[StarLord]

I'm gonna do my best to support the Friar Tuck solo film. I wanna see it sitting pretty in the top ten films of all time.

Friar Tuck
The Jovial Friar
The Monk Returns

That's the trilogy right there.