Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff!

[darjr]

The Sherif doesn’t die!

 

[Amphytrion]

Connie Nielsen is playing Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother to King Richard and Prince John—she did always like Richard best. Curious choice to pick her as the villainess, especially since Richard usually comes across very well in Robin Hood tales, and she was a stalwart supporter of his.

I realize that a new Robin Hood movie must be made by every generation in order to keep the Old Ones in their slumber, but did we have to cast underwear models?

Have we ever had a well-cast Robin Hood after Errol Flynn? Even when the adaptation itself is great (like Disney’s), Robin Hood himself is usually terribly boring.

Might as well cast pretty people, I suppose.

Everyone knows Robin Hood reached perfection in 1973.

I agree. 10/10 supporting cast on that one. If Peter Ustinov isn’t arguing with a Sir Hiss, it’s not proper Robin Hood to me.

 

[môrgondír]

In that trailer I saw both a bodkin-tipped arrow and a broadhead-tipped arrow, that's pretty cool! =)

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

Everyone knows Robin Hood reached perfection in 1973.

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I came here to say the same Thing.

Also the best Prince John.

 

[Cadence]

Everyone knows Robin Hood reached perfection in 1973.

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Amen!

 

[Vael]

Looks pretty good. I like the Saxon vs Norman element.

I do think Robin and his Merry Men all look a bit too clean for outlaws living in a forest, though.

Honestly, that's a part that I'm fine with. I like my Robin Hood a little pulp-y like in animated Robin Hood or Robin of Sherwood, that old BBC series.

Or,

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Anyone taking bets on how long the show runs before they kill off Bean?

3 episodes!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

In the first season though?

It’s not unknown. There are Guy of Gisbourne and King John as backup villains.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Curious choice to pick her as the villainess, especially since Richard usually comes across very well in Robin Hood tales, and she was a stalwart supporter of his

Robin of Sherwood had a much more evil take on Richard.

It wouldn’t be inconsistent with the actual historical record for Eleanor to be clever, scheming, and manipulative, and Richard a dim-witted mummy’s boy.

 

[Morrus]

Was Robin of Sherwood good, or am I remembering incorrectly?

It was excellent.