Did they remake Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood?
Haven’t there been numerous Robin Hood movies over many decades? Was there really a new story to tell about Robin Hood?
Robin Che, taking from the Capitalist pigs and giving the workers world party.
I liked 1993 “ Robin Hood Me in Tights” by Mel Brooks
Looks like the Russel Crowe version didn’t do well but the Costner version did pretty well.
I’m sure the latest incarnation has Robin as a fag, Marion as a strong, independent #metoo victim, Nottingham as an orange-haired villain, and Sherwood Forest as an endangered green space.
No wonder crowds missed it in droves.
“Did they remake Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood?”
That was the best of them all, entertainment-wise. Had a good song by Bryan Adams, had one of the best villains ever in Alan Rickman (BAFTA nominated) and the ending with Sean Connery was a bonus.
Russell Crowe’s was utter crap with the dark angle nonsense..
Erroll Flynn’s movie was still the best.
There are few new stories, haven't been for a couple millennia.
Make it as real as possible in depicting the 12th century. Brutal knights and thuggish lords shaking coins out of swinish peasants and canny merchants. Everybody in it for their own interest while having some cleric or clerk utter hypocritical bromides on the social order. Robin Hood a near thug who came up second best in a fight with a bigger liege lord. His merry men pretty much ronin like broken knights and unemployed mercenaries gathering a growing band of the dispossessed and the criminal from the lowest social strata. Conduct a guerrilla war against the much better armed and equipped government forces who are competent but brutal professionals. That wold have some viewer interest especially if it becomes clear Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham are just two sides of the same coin.
Public domain stories are way too attractive for lazy Hollywood.
Mel Brooks’ “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” was a good one, especially the catapult and circumcision scenes. The only better catapult one was when I told a friend at work about a news story that contained the terms, “girl friend” and “trebuchet.” He said he didn’t want to hear anything more.
I guess Hollywood is just THAT compelled to make films about wealth redistribution.