Robin Hood: In The Future Space-age version of story coming Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Fill your quiver with laser-arrows and don't forget your lightstaff: a futuristic Robin Hood is in development at Warner Bros., with The Dark Knight producer Charles Roven and 300 producer Craig Flores shepherding it through. Yes, R.bn Hd-1138 will be robbing cyber-credits from the rich and giving them to the poor in a dystopian future London.
Aside from the setting, few details have been released about the project, save that a gang of thieves will restore hope to the capital's "embattled" population (alien overlords? To chime with the Norman/Saxon divide in the original story?). We do know that it will be a "futuristic action-adventure" that will both "be inspired by" and "pay homage to" the legend of Robin Hood.
Commercials director Nicolai Fuglsig will direct the film, in what could be his feature debut unless Bleederback, which he is also developing with Roven, comes together first. Jason Hall, who wrote upcoming Ashton Kutcher comedy/drama Spread, will write the script, and should bear in mind that we're serious about wanting laser arrows.
Whether this will be affected by Ridley Scott's Robin Hood remains to be seen: that Russell Crowe film is likely to be heavy on the drama and the epic, and might even help this film along if it's a success. But this is such a popular story that the success of one probably doesn't affect the other: after all, we're talking about the same Hollywood that made two big Robin Hood films in the same year back in 1991. So given that one of these is futuristic, they'll barely clash at all.
you what !!!! this sounds like a silly idea of master race controls little race, little race breaks free from the handcuffs of master race and then peace, love, and prosper begins,
sounds like Matrix meets robin hood. ... Read More
I remember those Nathan Elliot books. Lol, in an alien invasion strategy on a par with the aliens in Signs, they cunningly have shields that make them impervious to laser fire but NOT physical objects. Which is just an excuse for a switch to medieval weaponary (fire arms having been locked away in museums, they get those later). ... Read More
In fact, after reading that news item again, if it's alien overlords it's EXACTLY like the Hood's Army trilogy (Earth Invaded, Slaveworld, The Liberators). Somebody ought to be speed-dialling their lawyers about this... ... Read More
L: Alvin Stardust
Isn't Robin Hood meant to be from Nottingham, not London? I know 'dystopian future Nottingham' sounds a bit bobbins, but this seems to pander to those Americans who can't comprehend life exists in the UK outside its capital.
e Ridley Scott film sounds like a dull re-tread. I much prefered the original idea of the Sheriff as the central character, and can't understand why that potentially interesting concept was junked.ote]
i agree completely, lost interest c... Read More
Isn't Robin Hood meant to be from Nottingham, not London? I know 'dystopian future Nottingham' sounds a bit bobbins, but this seems to pander to those Americans who can't comprehend life exists in the UK outside its capital.
Even the Ridley Scott film sounds like a dull re-tread. I much prefered the original idea of the Sheriff as the central character, and can't understand why that potentially interesting concept was junked. ... Read More
