Margot Robbie was recently announced to star in movie about Maid Marian
Seven Robin Hood movies are currently in production in Hollywood.
Margot Robbie was recently announced to star in a new movie about Maid Marian, but there are six other projects connected with the heroic outlaw.
Along with Marian, there is Lionsgate’s prequel film Robin Hood (previously known as Robin Hood: Origins), which will star Kingsman’s Taron Egerton as the titular hero alongside Jamie Foxx, Jamie Dornan, Ben Mendelsohn and Tim Minchin, Disney’s Nottingham & Hood with writer Brandon Barker working on an adventure film in the vein of Pirates Of The Caribbean. The trailer for the new film has now been released.
Warner Bros has its own, untitled Robin Hood project in the works from Aquaman writer Will Beall, and producers Dan Lin (The Lego Movie) and John Zaozirny while DreamWorks’ Merry Men, a “re-imagining” of Robin Hood that was announced all the way back in 2013, is also currently still in production.
There is also Robin Hood 2058, which is described as a “rogue MI5 agent on a mission to avenge injustice” in a dystopian future London.
Meanwhile, Robin Hood And The Prince Of Aragon is a low-budget “vibrant punk-pop retelling of the mythos”.
Of the seven, the first film set to show the light of day first is expected to be the Lionsgate prequel starring Taron Egerton.
Previous adaptations of Robin Hood include Russell’s Crowe 2010 movie and 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves starring Kevin Costner and the late Alan Rickman.
Meanwhile, Robbie is currently working on I, Tonya, a biopic of notorious American figure skater Tonya Harding.
The actress is also due to reprise her Suicide Squad role in Gotham City Sirens, a film focusing on the famous female characters from the DC universe. Megan Fox has also been linked to the film and director David Ayer has recently dropped a major hint about its villain.
Meanwhile, Robbie was named one of NME‘s People of the Year for 2016. Last month (February) footage of her dancing in a honky-tonk bar in the US went viral.
mister_barfly75 on July 18th, 2018 at 11:04 UTC »
This article is over a year old. Of the seven projects listed here, only the Taron Egerton Robin Hood has actually been made and is getting released.
Margot Robbie's Maid Marion is only at script stage. She's the only person announced to be in it, it doesn't have a director, and there's no release date set. Until they've actually announced that they've started filming, I'm going to assume it's just another one of those flicks that gets announced and then doesn't happen. Like the Nic Cage Superman.
Check the IMDB profiles for Will Beall and Dan Lin and there's no mention on either about an untitled Warner Bros Robin Hood project. Since Warner Bros only recently got burned by the King Arthur movie that no one bothered to watch, chances are they've shit the bed and canned it.
The other 4 - Nottingham & Hood, Robin Hood 2058, Robin Hood & The Prince of Aragon and Merry Men - are all listed as in development. Since Robin Hood 2058 has been kicking around since at least 2011 and gone through various writers and directors in that time, I'd be completely surprised if it managed to claw its way out of development Hell and onto the screen.
LegendarySpark on July 18th, 2018 at 09:14 UTC »
Sold! This is the kind of quality that's missing in Hollywood.
spacepotatokill on July 18th, 2018 at 09:00 UTC »
Always with the dystopian London