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First Warners Sends CAPTAIN BLOOD Into Space, Now They're Kicking Robin Hood Into The Future!!
Merrick here...
Last week we learned of Warner Bros' intent to set their CAPTAIN BLOOD remake in space (details HERE). Now comes word that the studio is angling towards an untitled Robin Hood project set in the future, directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and scripted by Jason Hall.
Few plot details have been revealed about the new Robin Hood, but it will be set in a dystopian London and center on a band of thieves whose activities restore hope to the city’s embattled population. Producers describe it as "a futuristic action adventure” that will be "both inspired by and pay homage to the legend of Robin Hood."
...reveals THR's Risky Business Blog HERE. You may've seen some of Fuglsig's commercial work:
The announcement of Fuglsig's project while Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe are generating their interpretation of the legend recalls 1991's duel between ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES (also a Warners project) and Fox's ROBIN HOOD. PRINCE OF THIEVES (HERE
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Wouldn't an RFID chip kinda make this a hard thing to do?
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Really, it's a good idea.
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They're still out of ideas.
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They should just adapt Rocket Robin Hood, that was a blast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPqDUDzsek&feature=mkt-ha-ugc -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfisiGqtEM
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I agree. Laser Arrows. AND, and Accelerator Glove so he can shoot & reload really quickly.
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Set in Space!
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It's all motionplus in the future!
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I never got the Robin Hood fascination at all. A thief who makes others pay for the luxury of his pity, practicing charity with wealth which he did not own. I love a good underdog story but it's something that never connected with me.
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A futuristic robinhood? Bring it on, sounds like a lot of fun and could be visually impressive if done right.
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Translated: We're out of ideas.
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Granted that was set in the 30th century in space but the general same idea....
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Robin Hood, but it was a Canadian made toon from the 60's so it's not like a whole lot of people are familiar with it.
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robin hood stole from the rich. i.e. royalty. the people who were wealthy by getting their money from the work that the peasants did. robin hood gave the stolen goods to the peasants, who did all the work for the royals and never got paid for it. see? why have sympathy for royalty. they have never earned anything for themselves.
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... True, the makers often literally recycled stories and cels from the 60s Spider-Man cartoons, just replacing Spidey with RRH. But anyone who thinks they can improve on "Rocket Robin Hood" is very very wrong and headed for a fall. That show was awesome and perfect.
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The Robin Hood legend is about resistance against a corrupt government which taxes the poor to finance the ridiculous excesses of the ruling class. England's treasury is being diverted to financing the Crusades, so Prince John, along with other minor nobles who've been left in charge, take advantage of the poor to fund their own decadent lifestyle and plans to take control of England. Robin is a noble who turns his back on the corruption and scarifices everything he has, lands, title and power,to bring justice for the poor. He doesn't rob the rich so much as take back the money that shouldn't have been taken in the first place. Thats the point of Robin Hood.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8_2GUXnPu4
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1991. DC Comics miniseries entitled Outlaws by Michael Jan Friedman and art by Luke McDonnell. Are the cokeheads who're producing this going to give Friedman and McDonnell a cut? Yeah... rrright.
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Fail Merrick! For not including the theme song for the cartoon in the article :)
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Love the novel, the movie with Errol Flynn was fun, Bruckheimer does not have the market on pirate films. Captain Blood is sufficiently different that there is no comparison to PotC. Unbelievably stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.
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Fantastic reading. Best take on Robin yet.
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I'd rather see a remake of ARMY OF DARKNESS done as a straight-up epic action film rather than one of Sam Raimi's goof-off trips to New Zealand.
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Last week I said something akin to 'Next, they'll be making a movie about Rocket Robin Hood'. I should have kept my trap shut...
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The Birdcage...In Space!
See, I can do this too. -
With hot lesbian alien love...
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Directed by James Cameron and the sequel to Avatar.
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Since they've acquiesced to my constant requests (nay, DEMANDS!) for a live action version of Rocket Robin Hood, my next demand is a live action reimagining of the old Hercules cartoon, starring Gerard Butler as Herc, Shia LeBeouf as Newton, Dakota Fanning as Toot, Megan Fox as Helena, Hugo Weaving as The Mask, Stephen McHattie as Daedalus, and Meryl Streep as Wilhemine.
I said, I DEMAND IT! -
Hehehehe...
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L'Archer blanc (White Archer).
http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-4032-BD-Archer-blanc.html
Which was based on Robin Hood. -
...is the definitive pirates-in-space movie. Beat that, Warners...
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Parts of it already are like a post-apocalyptic waste land so you wouldn't even need to build sets.
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with McConaughey as Oliver Queen. Make it happen Warners!!!!!!
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...how about Hercules In Space? With Comsic Newtown and Astro Toot. With Megan Fox as Wilhemena. Jack Black as Dedalus. And some asian actor as The Mask.
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generally speaking. just that the concept of robin hood is so cool, steal from the rich give to the poor, a noble bad ass band of outlaws. it's so classic and awesome, and to do it in a modern style era could be fantastic. most likely since it's a hollywood project and not someone's vision, it won't be awesome. but it could be cool.
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...And a lot more interesting, sadly, than Scott's version.
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Aug 07, 2009 10:34:39 PM CDT
As I recall, Bergin's Robin Hood was the better of the two..
by the dark shite
With the exception of the super fucking cool Rickman.
But the trailer is annoying. Why do Americans call him ROBIN Hood, with the emphasis on ROBIN?
It's like "Hi, I'm DAVE Smith."
& Omar B, the Robin Hood story is something you also see throughout history (& possibly influenced/helped encourage some of it). It's linked to things like the Magna Carta (the first little step towards real modern democracy) & even things like the Amereican revolution.
It's people power, essentially. Sticking it to the man. Who doesn't like that? -
"robin hood stole from the rich. i.e. royalty. the people who were wealthy by getting their money from the work that the peasants did. robin hood gave the stolen goods to the peasants, who did all the work for the royals and never got paid for it. see? why have sympathy for royalty. they have never earned anything for..." themselves. It's curious how Robin Hood's obviously communist ideas of distribution of wealth among the people resonates in apparently capitalistic societies...
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think about it
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the new one should be set in a distopian Nottingham...because you'd barely have to change it from what it already looks like.
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"Slingin' bangers and mash"? Pretty sure that's what Patrick Bergin is doing now.
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ied's in furniture
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... "flipping burgers", since you lot brought your nasty dirty turd-in-a-bun McDonalds and Burger Kings over to our fair shores!
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It will take a couple of years for that virus to burn out.
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"Having a wank".
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...that it's going to look Fugly.
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Hee hee hee I am so funny.
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Well played, sir.
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Robin Hood in a capitalistic society = COMMUNIST.
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Robin Hood wasn't fighting against the aristocracy, per se. He was fighting against a pretender to the throne, Prince John. The true king was off being awfully brave slaughtering muslims in the Holy Land, which we all know is far more important than governing your own nation and ensuring that your asshole little brother doesn't make a mess of the place.
Robin Hood was trying to keep the true king's honour alive, not enciting revolution against the system.
Of course, this means he conveniently didn't realize that the taxes being paid by the peasants were going to help pay for King Richard's holy quest overseas.
Oops. Silly Robin! -
I WANT A KICK-ASS DICK TURPIN MOVIE!!!!!
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