# I'd say we're about due a new Robin Hood movie, no?

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**Created:** [April 2, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-say-were-about-due-a-new-robin-hood-movie-no/350971 "2006-04-02T18:57:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-say-were-about-due-a-new-robin-hood-movie-no/350971/21 "2006-04-07T17:45:21Z")

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> Is such a thing even possible? Don’t we have even less reliable historical information about Robin Hood than we have about King Arthur?

I’m not sure I’d say that… We do, at least, know in what century the story of Robin Hood takes place, which is more than we can say (beyond some educated guesses) for Arthur.

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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-say-were-about-due-a-new-robin-hood-movie-no/350971/22 "2006-04-07T19:15:18Z")

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I’d like to see the cast of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ do Robin Hood.

Either them or a bunch of anthropomorphic animals.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-say-were-about-due-a-new-robin-hood-movie-no/350971/23 "2006-04-07T19:33:13Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> I’m not sure I’d say that… We do, at least, know in what century the story of Robin Hood takes place, which is more than we can say (beyond some educated guesses) for Arthur.

Do we? Robin living when Richard I was away crusading is only one version of the story; some versions place him later. Some say he lived in Sherwood Forest, some say Barnsdale Forest. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin\_Hood#Connections\_to\_existing\_locations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood#Connections_to_existing_locations)

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-say-were-about-due-a-new-robin-hood-movie-no/350971/24 "2006-04-07T20:12:55Z")

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So would Rik Mayall be out of the question? 😉  
“I loooooove giving it to the poor! Woof!”

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