Peaky Blinders’ Otto Bathurst will direct one of those Robin Hood movies
The best part of about Robin Hood—other than the rob-from-the-rich-and-give-to-the-poor angle and his roguish charm—is that he’s just as famous as a superhero, but movie studios don’t have to throw a few bucks at Bob Kane’s estate every time they want to make a movie about Robin Hood. They just have to come up with some kind of new and clever take on the character—or at least “new” and “clever.” One such “new” and “clever” take is the one Lionsgate is developing, Robin Hood: Origins, which was written by Joby Harold—the guy behind Guy Ritchie’s upcoming Knights Of The Roundtable movie. Origins will reportedly be about exactly what you think it’ll be about based on the title, so let’s not waste anybody’s time by saying that it’ll focus on Robin Hood as he returns from The Crusades and puts together a band of Merry Men in order to fight corruption.