Robin Hood Reboot: Avengers Style

[antonydelfini]

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

100 percent this.

I hope someone in the studio realizes this.

 

[Rowsdower!]

The sad thing is that Robin Hood could be such a great franchise yet it's been squandered so many times recently that I doubt the interest would even be there. Prince of Thieves would have been great had they not COMPLETELY MISCAST THE LEAD ROLE. I love Costner, but what was he thinking? And the Ridley Scott one was just a depressing mess that tried to pull the "this is the TRUE story" card like that Clive Owen version of King Arthur.

 

[:eek:]

Reading about "shared cinematic universes" is already beginning to feel as tiresome as reading about young adult-adaptations or something

 

[bullets]

The concept of building a cinematic isn't enough for it to work. There has to be interest , among other things. I can see why the studios want to do it , but using Robin Hood characters seems unlikely to be a huge sucess

 

[jmc]

A case of be careful what you wish for....

 

[MadVillainy]

who wished for an Avengers style Robin Hood franchise?

 

[Donut]

Sony & the next thing we know is they will have Peter Parker time travel 2 the past & even Spider-Man teams up with Robin Hood

 

[Jochimus]

who wished for an Avengers style Robin Hood franchise?

I'd rather have a Robin Hood-style Avengers franchise, but that's neither here nor there...

 

[Jochimus]

Sony & the next thing we know is they will have Peter Parker time travel 2 the past & even Spider-Man teams up with Robin Hood

...what worries me is that I can see studios pulling from the old 1940s Universal Monsters playbook and actually being desperate enough to start mashing together whatever franchises they do have regardless of how well or not they fit. I cringe at the thought of ALIEN VS. PREDATOR ON THE PLANET OF THE APES coming from Fox, or Paramount forgetting that JASON X ever happened and deciding to make STAR TREK: STARDATE FRIDAY THE 13TH.

 

[mclay18]

Good. Maybe they can get these actors to reprise their roles.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I wonder what the legalities would be to do a movie adaptation of the Defender Of The Crown video game (basically it would be a dumbed-down Avengers-ish version of Ivanhoe). You would have access to Robin Hood, the Merry Men, Ivanhoe, Knights Templar, some of the game-specific knights, and so on.

 

[chamber-music]

We're men, we're men in tights. We roam around the forest looking for fights

 

[Teelie]

I kept reading through these posts, hoping someone would point to where this was either a joke or a satire but sadly no one has. This has to be a prank. It's too stupid to be real.

Maybe it just hasn't been revealed yet. This is the kind of dumb you'd expect to be reported as a joke, not a serious attempt by a major studio.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I wonder what the legalities would be to do a movie adaptation of the Defender Of The Crown video game (basically it would be a dumbed-down Avengers-ish version of Ivanhoe). You would have access to Robin Hood, the Merry Men, Ivanhoe, Knights Templar, some of the game-specific knights, and so on.

Or why not just adapt Ivanhoe? Robin Hood has a part there, but he's not the central character, so it won't feel like all of the recent Robin Hood adaptations. And while Ivanhoe has been adapted before, it's been a while. According to the wikipedia page, there is a new adaptation in production, though I'm not sure if it's still happening. Found this article from 2 years ago:

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/s...d-new-movie-of-walter-scotts-ivanhoe-girds-up

 

[jmc]

who wished for an Avengers style Robin Hood franchise?

Subtext wasn't clear enough evidently so never mind.

 

[Destructus86]

And.....

 

[Airwings]

Where will all these "shared universes" end?

Soon, WB will introduce Harry Potter in the MOS world (if Rowling does nothing to stop it)

 

[Sawyer]

Because fanboys seem dead set on blaming Nolan's Batmovies for the grim and gritty trend and blaming Harry Potter for the trend of splitting up the final installment of a series, I'm going to blame Marvel Studios for this s***.

 

[John Locke]

 

[Pink Ranger]

Or why not just adapt Ivanhoe? Robin Hood has a part there, but he's not the central character, so it won't feel like all of the recent Robin Hood adaptations. And while Ivanhoe has been adapted before, it's been a while. According to the wikipedia page, there is a new adaptation in production, though I'm not sure if it's still happening. Found this article from 2 years ago:

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/s...d-new-movie-of-walter-scotts-ivanhoe-girds-up

An Ivanhoe adaptation would be cool, but may be too highbrow for a money-hungry studio to fund. The reason I chose DOTC is because you can use the same characters, but in a more dumbed-down blockbuster setting, and have a bigger role for Robin Hood and his men.

 

[dark_b]

its all your fault fanboys. you didnt watch Amazing Spiderman 2-4 times this summer.

you see what you did?

 

[sueb1863]

How about a 'When Things Were Rotten' reboot?

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

 

[Lencho01]

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

Same. People are getting paid for these types of things in Hollywood.

 

[Breogan]

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

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[Goshdarn Batman]

Bwahahaha!!!