Posted on 04/10/2020 1:39:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Disney has targeted Robin Hood as the latest of its animated classics to get the remake treatment.
Carlos Lopez Estrada, perhaps best known for directing the 2018 crime movie Blindspotting, is on board to helm the project, which is being written by Kari Granlund. Granlund already is in the Disney fold after having written the studio’s recent remake of Lady and the Tramp.
Justin Springer, who counts the studio’s Dumbo and Tron Legacy among his credits, is producing the feature being developed for the studio’s Disney+ streaming service.
Robin Hood was a comedic and musical take on the famous tale, with anthropomorphic animals inhabiting the roles of the characters made famous over the centuries. Hood was a fox; Little John, a bear; Friar Tuck, a badger; Prince John, a thumb-sucking lion; the sheriff of Nottingham, a wolf; and Maid Marian, a vixen.
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Take from the Rich. Give to the Poor is historically inaccurate.
Will the next version be historically accurate?
The King of England was fighting an expensive war in the Middle East. That war was consuming all the tax revenue.
The Sheriff of Nottingham wanted a better lifestyle.
So the Sheriff used big government to seize the silverware and farm animals and crops of the middle class. (He would have stole from the poor except they did not have anything worth stealing.)
Robin Hood and his merry men returned to their rightful owners the goods that the Sheriff stole. The Sheriff stole. There is no doubt about that. He did not follow the orders of the King, nor of common law, in what he did.
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The Robin Hood legends are public domain (ie: Free)
No license fee, just pay the script writer.
Cheaper than paying an author for the film rights.
It never played in Memphis, as far as I know.
Bloody Lupines!
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Difford and Tilbrook reference-nice!
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Question: Why is the song Happy Birthday still under copyright by the 2 sisters who wrote it? I'm 70 and I remember it as a child of 5. I don't get it. Yeah, I know, Google. Too lazy.
‘Twas a joke, my friend.
There was a lawsuit a few years back that determined the song was older than claimed by the copyright holder, and its now in the public domain.
I never saw that movie, after looking at this I guess I will watch it someday.
And I just realized I’m still thinking of that movie as Mel Brooks new movie.
Yike. I need to get a clue here.
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