Robin Hood: Origins

[Raph's Girl]

Just how many fricken Robin Hood movies are coming out? Now we have Robin Hood: Origins starring Taron Egerton as Robin Hood, Eve Hewson as Maid Marion and Jaimee Foxx as Little John.

Described as an origin story in the vein of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, Robin Hood: Origins aims for a new take on the folk hero. The story finds Robin Hood (played by Kingsman: The Secret Service‘s Taron Egerton) returning from The Crusades to discover a Sherwood Forest rife with corruption and evil. Teaming with a band of outlaws, he takes matters into his own hands to set things right, with very little merry-making along the way.

Also a description of Little John: “a battle hardened but war weary veteran of The Crusades who starts out distrustful of Robin Hood (they fought on opposite sides), and then warms to the young hero.”

Considering they faught on opposite sides this means Little John is a Moor.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/646499-jamie-foxx-is-little-john-in-robin-hood-origins

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

I have never understood the appeal of Robin Hood. Do British people feel different? 'Cause the ol' Man in Tights bores me to tears.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

That title is hilarious. It calls to mind a similarly ill-conceived origin movie of a similar name...

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

That title is hilarious. It calls to mind a similarly ill-conceived origin movie of a similar name...

Maybe Robin Hood gets gangpressed into a medieval Weapon X program and they bond adamantium arrows to his hands or something.

Yay. Origin movies.

[Autbot_Benz]

The Best Robin Hood was the one in Doctor Who

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[Candy Kappa]

ugh, "gritty". We've had a "gritty" Robin Hood recently (which was also a origin story), I'd rather see something more Adventure genre, something fun without another origin story where Robin comes home from the Crusades and everything's grim-bad.

Little John as a Moor is interesting, though.

[TigerClaw]

The Best Robin Hood was the one in Doctor Who

http://i63.tinypic.com/10wm8b9.jpg
The best Robin Hood to me will always be the one by Disney. :)

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[TheSkeletonMan939]

The best Robin Hood to me will always be the one by Disney. :)

Ditto. One of Disney's finest, to be sure! :D

[Allio]

I am personally fond of a dead robin hood

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[The Deadman]

Nothing beats Robin Hood: Men in Tights. That movie was hilarious.

[Leo656]

...I thought the Russel Crowe one already was "Robin Hood: Origins"? And the Costner one was also a "gritty reboot". I'm puzzled.

I like Robin Hood. But I too am baffled by the constant need to try and update it. I mean, let's completely ignore Errol Flynn just for the sake of argument, but "Prince of Thieves" and TNT's "New Adventures of Robin Hood" both were not THAT long ago, and between them they've already said pretty much everything that needs to be said about the character.

It's like Peter Pan. I like that, too, but Hollywood isn't getting the message that people don't care anymore. Not about those particular characters and stories. They like the older movies just fine and will watch them if they want to visit those characters and the worlds they live in. The most recent films about either character did not do well, and it was not necessarily because they were bad movies, most people who saw them said they were all rather good, but completely pointless. Nobody cares about a "new" Peter Pan, or Robin Hood, they're fine with what already exists. I know that Hollywood wants to turn everything into a franchise series worth 5 or 6 movies of story so they can make two billion dollars on existing IP but some things just don't work, and have already been done better, besides.

Flaws and all, I'm partial to "Prince of Thieves". I know, I know, but it's the one I grew up with. And Christian Slater. C'mon.

[TheBlueTurtle1]

The best Robin Hood to me will always be the one by Disney. :)

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Couldn't agree more:D