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

[patmartin]

Sean Connery did a pretty good job as an older Robin in Robin & Marion (1976). The movie covers the end of Robin's life which isn't the part of the story most of us are familiar with.

Sean Connery is possibly the only actor to have played both Robin (in Robin and Marian) and King Richard (in Prince of Thieves).

I now have the Clannard music from Robin of Sherwood going around my head...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Sean Connery is possibly the only actor to have played both Robin (in Robin and Marian) and King Richard (in Prince of Thieves).

I now have the Clannard music from Robin of Sherwood going around my head...

The hooded man…

 

[Parmandur]

I don't have MGM+ (didn't even know it was a thing).

It's actually a cable channel formerly known as Epix, owned by Amazon and used mostly for streaming back catalog content from MGM.

 

[Willie the Duck]

Cautiously hopeful. Robin Hood stuff is a really mixed bag (though I'm not a Prince of Thieves hater--Alan Rickman makes up for a multitude of sins).

(IMO the only thing bad about Prince of Thieves is Kevin Costner's American accent.)

There was little wrong with Prince of Thieves, it just wasn't especially right. Costner (who, yes, is American and sounds it), rather than the passion he brought to The Untouchables through JFK, started (or continued, depending on how you view Dances With Wolves) his streak of underacting performances that lasted through The Postman. Morgan Freeman brought wonderful acting to a tropish role. Sean Connery came for a requisite cameo that was very much cameo-shaped and of cameo-duration.

Rickman and Geraldine McEwan absolutely nailed the villain roles and elevated every scene in which they appeared. The problem is that if all the great components of a movie are in one facet (villains, visuals, score), you don't say that they elevate the whole, you instead say it's wonderful villains/visuals/score in an otherwise bad/bland movie. It's like Raul Julia in Street Fighter (perhaps moreso, since unlike Street Fighter, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves isn't otherwise bad so much as muddled and bland).

Maid Marian wasn't originally part of the Robin Hood stories. She comes from the tradition of French pastoral poetry about the shepherd Robin and the country lass Marian. When those works crossed over to England, "Robin" became confused with Robin from the Robin Hood legends, and so Robin Hood acquired a love interest in Marian.

Another interesting (well, I think so at least) factoid: Will Scarlet was, in some older stories, Will Skylark.

Thank you for not starting a 'What do most people get wrong about Robin Hood' thread.

 

[Dioltach]

Thank you for not starting a 'What do most people get wrong about Robin Hood' thread.

Somewhere in Scotland there was a grave marked "Little John". I can't remember exactly when it was - somewhere I might have photocopy of the research I did at university - but I think it was in the late Middle Ages when they opened the grave. The skeleton was of someone with dwarfism, but powerful musculature.

There's a parallel in the Arthurian legends of Guiffre le Petit, a dwarf who was also a mighty warrior.

(And this probably exhausts my knowledge of Robin Hood trivia.)

 

[chuckdee]

Please, let it not be like the Taron Egerton film.

I actually liked this one, in all honesty.

 

[Vael]

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

It's streaming on TUBI if you want to see for yourself. I like it, it's earnest and of its time, but Nicholas Grace is another fine entry into the group of scenery chewing camp Sheriffs and the cast is solid. I like adding in Herne the Hunter and some of the more fantastical elements, there's some interesting politics going on. Admittedly, the third season with Sean Connery's son isn't working as well, but it is interesting to see the show transition to a new lead.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

double post.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

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

Robin of Sherwood is the single most excellent interpretation of the tale.

Its use of magic and myth was brilliant.

Sorry Anthropomorphic fox...

 

[Zaukrie]

It's streaming on TUBI if you want to see for yourself. I like it, it's earnest and of its time, but Nicholas Grace is another fine entry into the group of scenery chewing camp Sheriffs and the cast is solid. I like adding in Herne the Hunter and some of the more fantastical elements, there's some interesting politics going on. Admittedly, the third season with Sean Connery's son isn't working as well, but it is interesting to see the show transition to a new lead.

Oh, I saw it when it was out....but sometimes my memory of what was good or not is skewed. I was just making sure my memory was right.