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

[Vael]

I assume Nasir is the archetypal one that everything after riffs on, but I don't know the source material, lol

 

[jian]

I assume Nasir is the archetypal one that everything after riffs on, but I don't know the source material, lol

AFAICT Nasir is the archetype and thus one of the most notable modern additions to the Robin Hood legendarium.

 

[popuman]

general consensus: sean bean is in it.
also general consensus: but will he die?

 

[jian]

general consensus: sean bean is in it.
also general consensus: but will he die?

Not if he’s secretly Nasir.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

(Despite that, I loved Nasir. He was so obviously played by the guy who wants to play something different in a medieval D&D campaign and has also just read Unearthed Arcana. "I'm a Saracen assassin who dual wields scimitars!")

Whilst D&D was probably an influence on Robin of Sherwood, Unearthed Arcana was published in the same year, 1985, and was therefore too late.

NB Morgan Freeman may not be white, but he was still the wrong ethnicity for a Saracen.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

general consensus: sean bean is in it.
also general consensus: but will he die?

The Sheriff in Nottingham usually does, but possibly not in season one. As Thomas Cromwell, he only escaped beheading by the show being cancelled before getting to that point.

 

[Morrus]

The Sheriff in Nottingham usually does, but possibly not in season one. As Thomas Cromwell, he only escaped beheading by the show being cancelled before getting to that point.

They’d NEVER make a show with Sean Bean as a major lead and then behead him.

…. would they?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They’d NEVER make a show with Sean Bean as a major lead and then behead him.

…. would they?

They might shoot him full of arrows instead.

I just can’t believe he survived National Treasure!