Update: This is actually a separate project from the one that the Wachowskis were developing with Will Smith. Read the original story below
Say what? About which character? In what time period?
Warner Bros. has hired writer Michael Ross to rewrite a script concerning Robin Hood in the future. Jason Dean Hall (the guy who wrote the not-that-bad David Mackenzie-directed film Spread) wrote the first draft of the script. Commercial director Nicolai Fuglsig is also now attached to direct the film. [Deadline]
This version of Robin of the Hood takes place in a futuristic, dystopic London (what isn’t dystopic these days?) where the hero and his Merry Men steal from the rich and give to the, well, you know.
Fuglsig has proven himself a very capable, effects-heavy director (see below). That said, this is a tired story that seems ready for a bit of a narrative break (though I quite enjoyed Ridley Scott‘s Robin Hood, the fact that the film was anything but a story about Robin Hood says something about the overexposure of the tale at this point in time).
Dystopia doesn’t quite make the story that much different or original. Taking two over-saturated components and shoving them together can’t be the best idea floating around Hollywood these days. Can it?
Would you pay to go see a futuristic Robin Hood steal from the futuristic rich and give to the futuristic poor?