[Movie News] Both Sony and Disney are Making ‘Robin Hood’ Movies
Hollywood is at it again, Disney has recently acquired a spec script for a Robin Hood movie following Sony's earlier claims this year of making a Robin Hood movie.
If you tried to count just how many Robin Hood productions have been made, you’d run out of fingers and toes. From movies, to television shows, made for television movies, not to mention grade school plays, I think it’d be safe to say that Nottingham is played out.
Not only have we seen our fair share of Robin Hood but we’re going to go through another deja vu Hollywood movie scenario again. This sad situation was most recently seen with 2014’s The Legend of Hercules starring Kellan Lutz and Hercules starring Dwayne Johnson.
Ugh, does this have to happen?!
Is the venerable rogue do-gooder Robin Hood becoming the “It” guy in Hollywood? Disney has acquired the Brandon Barker spec Nottingham & Hood, a revisionist take on the Robin Hood legend for Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman to produce through The Picture Company. This follows Sony staking a claim to Sherwood Forest as it bought a pitch by Cory Goodman and Jeremy Lott earlier this fall for high price. I’m told that Nottingham & Hood has a Pirates Of The Caribbean tone and the hope is to launch a new adventure franchise that fits Disney’s global brand.
Barker is a first-time writer. Disney SVP Tendo Nagenda will oversee the project with Foster Driver. Barker is also repped by Benderspink, UTA and attorney Jeff Frankel.
The classic tale has long captivated Hollywood as Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner both played the good-hearted outlaw, along with Cary Elwes in the spoof Men In Tights.
Source: Deadline
