And Jamie Foxx as Little John? Leaving aside the question of how a Moor becomes the leader of a band of outlaws in medieval England, Foxx is only about 5’9" tall, and not exactly a hulking giant in physique otherwise. Idris Elba (6’3") would have been more imposing. Is Foxx going to wear elevator buskins and padding, or will they digitally enhance him? Tim Minchin will also make a rather svelte Friar Tuck.
They should make feature films out of ALL the cartoons from the old Banana Splits teevee show. What was the one set in Arabia called?
From his Moorish cellmate, of course.
(The other cartoon on the Banana Splits show was The Three Musketeers, not Robin Hood, btw.)
That’s even more problematic. At least gunpowder was know of in the 14th.
I was going by when the tales were first written. My mistake.
This looks as bad as that last King Arthur movie they did with Charlie Hunnam.
I watched the trailer for this (hadn’t even heard of it until this thread) and it looks awful.
Ahhhhh! Now I wanna recast Danger Island. Oh Oh Chongooooooo!!!
Also agreed that you just can’t beat the Errol Flynn Robin Hood, but now that I’ve watched the trailer, I want to see this.
Drunk. I want to see this really, really drunk.
If this had been an old school Burt Reynolds style movie, where everyone involved was drunk and/or high all the time while filming because it was really just an excuse to throw an enormous and complicated party, I’d prolly go see it.
With Jackie Gleason as the Sheriff of Nottingham. “Forsooth, you sumbitch!”
Anyone care to guess how long it’ll take for this movie to go to video? :dubious:
Then we have Jerry Reed as Will Scarlet, Dom DeLuise as Friar Tuck, and of course Sally Field as Marion.
Thanks a lot, guys. As if I needed something else running around in my diseased brain. :rolleyes:
It’s not the same as other super hero flicks. The plot of these Robin Hood movies are virtually identical to each other, only the actors have changed.
And an occasional King Kong or King Kong type movie. How many times are they going to remake that slop? We get it, it’s a big chimp gone ape shit. ENOUGH!
When King Kong flings poo, he really FLINGS POO.
I don’t mind different takes on myths/legends any more than I mind different adaptations of the same novel/play/musical. Each new take has the potential to illuminate the story in a new way. I’ve enjoyed many different incarnations of Sherlock Holmes, for example.
What I mind in this newest version of Robin Hood (at least, as it’s seemed to be from the trailer) is that they’re trying to shoehorn it into dime-a-dozen action-movie tropes and cinematic styles. Which, from what I understand, was what plagued Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur movie. I mean, seriously–MARTIAL ARTS IN A **KING ARTHUR MOVIE?! ** The night it premiered, I went to see a local production of Camelot, and from what I heard I got the better end of the deal in King Arthur adaptations.
Baldrick was miscast as the Sheriff of Nottingham, but Maid Marian and her Merry Men had its moments.
Well, Tony Robinson wrote the series, so he got to decide who he wanted to play.
The first trailer had even. MORE. Explosions! And wire-fu. And terminator music.
I see they toned it down in the current trailer.