Robin Hood Reboot: Avengers Style

[Pink Ranger]

Set it in space and add rocket powered quivers and they may have something!

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And thusly a new vehicle for Sam Worthington is born.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Nobody will ever beat the 1938 Errol Flynn version, sorry.

The Cary Elwes version already did. t:

 

[sueb1863]

Sez you.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

You're both wrong. Kevin Costner is the ultimate Robin Hood!!!

Kidding. But the BBC version is crap.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I couldn't get through a whole episode of the BBC version. It was just painful to watch, IMO. Did they intend it to be a big joke or something?

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

I don't know, maybe? It sure looks like it. Didn't BBC also make a crappy version of The Three Musketeers?

 

[SlamAdams]

This is one shared universe that seems like a stretch.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Just wait for the Winnie the Pooh movie.

 

[SlamAdams]

Hasn't Tigger and Piglet already gotten their own movies?

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Yes, but they will reboot both, and make them grittier.

 

[godisawesome]

To play Devil's advocate here...

If they made a shared universe with a different style tone and formula than Avengers, it might work well. Almost every Robin Hood movie has the same beats, because Hollywood is notoriously afraid of risks; even Scott's grim and gritty version was created with the three act structure, train the villagers, win the girl at the very end story in mind. But, and this is an idea for a book series I might try and write some day, what if Robin Hood was in each film, but with limited but awesome screen time, while Tuck, Marian, John and Guy were the main focal characters and protagonists?

The original script for Scott's version was 'Nottingham' and the idea was to have Robin as an antagonistic thief the law abiding Sheriff must content with during his investigation. I read the script and you know what? I thought they could have gotten a huge amount of mileage out of shifting from their very deconstructive version of Robin (run of the mill egotist and robber) into a more sinister trickster archetype. Just imagine a movie where Robin appears only three times, but once or twice in disguise good enough you don't know it's him, and the third time with a big and disconcerting Cheshire Cat grin on his face.

I like the idea of Guy of Gisbourne competing with Robin as outlaws, or of the Sheriff facing the realization that he has zero control of his shire outside his town walls, or of Marian learning about and fighting the more mysterious Hood to meet the guy inside, or John being inspired by a genuinely scary rebel.

The only indisputable advantage of a shared universe is that it's built for sequels, so something like the idea above could make it a very nice series.

 

[mclay18]

Kidding. But the BBC version is crap.

Have you seen TNT's short-lived "The New Adventures of Robin Hood"? Absolutely dreadful, and I couldn't sit through one episode. And that animated TV series from Canada?

*shudder*

I couldn't get through a whole episode of the BBC version. It was just painful to watch, IMO. Did they intend it to be a big joke or something?

It was aimed at teenage boys, and it was mostly a lightweight affair (as in the first 2 seasons). It knows it's anachronistic, but I found the show compelling for the characters and relationships (the Robin/Marian/Guy triangle got on my nerves though). And some of the character changes were refreshing -- I liked how Allan was a fast-talking con artist and Marian being a more active character.

If you manage to check out the series more, you might enjoy the third and final season. A lot less silly and more dramatic, although the ending pissed me off.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Have you seen TNT's short-lived "The New Adventures of Robin Hood"? Absolutely dreadful, and I couldn't sit through one episode. And that animated TV series from Canada?

*shudder*



It was aimed at teenage boys, and it was mostly a lightweight affair (as in the first 2 seasons). It knows it's anachronistic, but I found the show compelling for the characters and relationships (the Robin/Marian/Guy triangle got on my nerves though). And some of the character changes were refreshing -- I liked how Allan was a fast-talking con artist and Marian being a more active character.

If you manage to check out the series more, you might enjoy the third and final season. A lot less silly and more dramatic, although the ending pissed me off.

Yes, but I wish I hadn't. Oh, why did you remind me of it

Isn't Tuck a black guy in the BBC version?

 

[TheVileOne]

Is this real life?

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide...

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Escape from reality

 

[TheVileOne]

I mean...look...I get that Robin Hood is sort of a universal folklorish hero you can continue to mine for media for like perpetually forever. I just don't get why this pitch is worth 7 figures.

How do you make a shared universe and movies out of the other Merry Men? I mean...how is that even possible? You're going to make Little John and Friar Tuck movies? Are people clamoring to see the Will Scarlet story?

The mind boggles.

 

[spider-neil]

Idiotic. Have Sony lost their minds?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Is this real life?

Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide...

Escape from reality

This makes me want to go back in time to the 1970s and produce an experimental, surrealistic film starring Queen as Robin Hood and the Merry Men. I'll get Alexander Jodorowsky to direct.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

This makes me want to go back in time to the 1970s and produce an experimental, surrealistic film starring Queen as Robin Hood and the Merry Men. I'll get Alexander Jodorowsky to direct.

Freddie Mercury as Robin Hood? Awesome.

 

[Pink Ranger]

David Bowie would show up at the end of the movie as King Richard.

 

[mclay18]

Isn't Tuck a black guy in the BBC version?

Yes, he was. His introduction in the final season was great, but they didn't use the actor or the character to their full potential. One failing of RH S3 was too many new characters at the expense of old favorites.

Oh yeah, and killing off the title character at the end -- not cool. There wasn't much closure to the show, since they planned a fourth season with Clive Standen's Archer character as the lead. But that went kaput when the ratings came in.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Make Friar Tuck Asian, so he can be a Shaolin monk and do all the crazy flying wuxia fighting. And Little John can be played by the actual Lil' John, who can also do the soundtrack to the film. Maid Miriam can be a Mossad assassin going undercover to expose a terrorist plot. And also, Will Scarlett Johannson, need I say more?

And in order to secure lucrative sponsorhip money, Robin Hood has to be carrying a sack of flour in every scene he's in.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Idiotic. Have Sony lost their minds?

I'm beginning to wonder. It isn't just one bad idea. Sony Pictures have been making questionable decisions all over the place (this, Sinister Six, Ghostbusters reboot, etc.).

I think it is time for a change in management.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I say combine it all. Just have the guy who made Bridesmaids direct an all-female cast of Sherwood Forest bandits who fight ghosts and call themselves the Sinister Six.


Three birds, one stone.