Robin Hood will never die, at least not at movie studios where a recognizable royalty-free character concept is a big deal. (Above you see Russell Crowe as the character in Ridley Scott's 2010 film.) A new pitch has been making the rounds and Sony is now putting up some big bucks for the story. Just…
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Briefly: One of the bigger laughs we had last year came via the announcement that the Wachowskis were attached to write and direct Hood, an urban retelling of the Robin Hood story. (With Will Smith attached to star.) The project didn't exactly make waves, and rather fell off the radar as the Wachowskis moved into…
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Andy and Lana Wachowski have been mulling a couple of possible directorial projects, chief among them their 'hard-R gay Iraq War love story' Cobalt Neural 9, and an adaptation of David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas. Now they'll reportedly do something completely different: Hood, "a modern, urban" version of the Robin Hood story. THR reports the…
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