Robinhood ....again!

Sad Max said:
No Yul Brynner = no Westworld.

Sorry.
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I had to get get past that myself. Gerard Butler?

David Jimerson said:
They did remake it well, with dinosaurs.
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Interesting point.

I watched Westworld the other day, and I could not help but think that it could be soooo much better if they re-did it. Don't get me wrong, I still love it, and I think they were very creative the way they dealt with the technology they had to work with at the time. But it's really a timeless story, in the way it deals with our fantasies, but it feels so dated.

I normally hate remakes. But that is one I would be behind.
 
Here's the deal: bring in an international treaty guaranteeing on pain of somebody's death that there will never be a remake of Futureworld, and I'm on board.
 
Jim Brennan said:
Now that I think of it, the 1938 Curtiz version is pretty amazing. It was arguably my favorite movie (along with The Longest Day and The Magnificent Seven) as a kid.

I love Olivia DeHavilland, Claude Rains is friggin brilliant, the Korngold score and Technicolor look are unforgettable. And, even in that ridiculous haircut and green tights, Flynn is more a man than I can ever hope to be.
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Magnificent 7 hell yeah ,

tmnt said:
As long as Bryan Adams is doing the song I'm there... wait, what
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You and everybody else :)
 
Sad Max said:
So far the version with Patrick Bergen, Uma Thurmond, Jeroen Krabbe and Jurgen Prochnow is hands-down the best I've seen. They chose to connect the story to lingering Norman/Saxon tensions.
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I have to agree with you, Karl. Hands down the best. It was made this same time as the Costner travesty but was sent to television instead of the big screen.
 
The trailer looks kinda cool. It's a darker take on things. But it feels a bit like gladiator, just with Robin Hood.
 
It feels like a direct sequel to 'Kingdom of Heaven'. For those who saw that, the movie ends with meeting up with King Richard and alludes to this idea that Balian went off and became Robin Hood (so said Ridley in the commentary).

I like Ridley's sword and sandles movies. Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven are light years better than King Arthur, Troy or Alexander.

But, Ridley seems to falter in casting. I love Russell in Gladiator, here he is too puffy/fat/old to be Robin and Cate is too old to be Maid Marian.
 
Shawn Philip Nelson said:
It feels like a direct sequel to 'Kingdom of Heaven'. For those who saw that, the movie ends with meeting up with King Richard and alludes to this idea that Balian went off and became Robin Hood (so said Ridley in the commentary).

I like Ridley's sword and sandles movies. Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven are light years better than King Arthur, Troy or Alexander.

But, Ridley seems to falter in casting. I love Russell in Gladiator, here he is too puffy/fat/old to be Robin and Cate is too old to be Maid Marian.
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Whoa, I never listened to the commentary for KoH, but if that is what he said, hmmm.... I think Orlando Bloom could actually make a pretty good Robin Hood. I'd rather have seen Bloom as Hood with Crowe as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Call me crazy, but I always pictured a new Robin Hood film to be something more of a not too serious swashbuckler like Pirates of the Caribbean or something equally adventurous and not so dark, maybe something not too far off from what Peter Jackson usually makes (King Kong, some of the elements of LOTR).

I agree with you on Gladiator and KoH being better than King Arthur and Alexander, but I thought Troy was pretty solid. Maybe not as good but certainly much better than King Arthur and Alexander.

Actually, in place of Robin Hood, I'd rather see Ridley Scott take on an epic adaptation of the Arthurian mythology, something closer to Excalibur and it's primary inspiration La Morte de Arthur instead of the type of Arthur movie that they did with the Clive Owen one. Russell Crowe might actually be able to pull off an interesting take on Merlin or King Uther, who was Arthur's father.
 
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Nektonic said:
Whoa, I never listened to the commentary for KoH, but if that is what he said, hmmm.... I think Orlando Bloom could actually make a pretty good Robin Hood. I'd rather have seen Bloom as Hood with Crowe as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Call me crazy, but I always pictured a new Robin Hood film to be something more of a not too serious swashbuckler like Pirates of the Caribbean or something equally adventurous and not so dark, maybe something not too far off from what Peter Jackson usually makes (King Kong, some of the elements of LOTR).

I agree with you on Gladiator and KoH being better than King Arthur and Alexander, but I thought Troy was pretty solid. Maybe not as good but certainly much better than King Arthur and Alexander.

Actually, in place of Robin Hood, I'd rather see Ridley Scott take on an epic adaptation of the Arthurian mythology, something closer to Excalibur and it's primary inspiration La Morte de Arthur instead of the type of Arthur movie that they did with the Clive Owen one. Russell Crowe might actually be able to pull off an interesting take on Merlin or King Uther, who was Arthur's father.
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Agreed, Orlando Bloom would have been better as a young Robin then as a way too young Balian (historically Balian was in his 40s I believe).

According to IMDB, Excalibur remake is already in preprod by Bryan Singer with John Boorman as Exec Producer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1497875/
 
Shawn Philip Nelson said:
According to IMDB, Excalibur remake is already in preprod by Bryan Singer with John Boorman as Exec Producer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1497875/
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As a huge Excalibur fan, I'm not thrilled with them using the title. I'm fine with a King Arthur film, especially one that is more mythological than the one with Clive Owen. I thought they ruined it by trying to be too historically connected with the supposed Roman origins for that one to work.

I fear they will merely just adapt John Boorman's Excalibur, which worries me that the remake will become like diluted mythology. There is a lot of material that has never been put into an Arthurian film if you go back to the true sources like La Morte d'Arthur and Geoffrey of Monmouth -- who drew his writings on Arthur from older sources. Then there is the more modern Arthurian material like Idylls of the King and T.H. White's The Once and Future King. Also there is the really old stuff from the Welsh Mabinogion about Arthur as well.

There is lots of potential to shake up the Arthurian mythos while still keeping the broad strokes that everybody loves.
 
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I'm baffled as to why someone would remake Excalibur, unless they're just hoping to ride the title to improved box-office figures.

I think Nektonic's right: the vein of Arthurian mythos was nowhere near mined out by Excallibur (and the idjit doofuses who perpetrated King Arthur missed the turnoff to the mine opening, and kept driving off into the countryside).

Better to take the mythology and go in an unexplored direction with it.
 
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Excalibur is one of those movies I hated as a kid and have grown fond of, especially finally seeing it in hi-def. The gauzy cinematography wasn't done justice in previous formats.
 
Scott + Crowe = win...

Trailer looks great. I'm really happy they're taking some of these old ideas and bringing them into a more credible reality.
 
Batutta said:
Excalibur is one of those movies I hated as a kid and have grown fond of, especially finally seeing it in hi-def. The gauzy cinematography wasn't done justice in previous formats.
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I feel kind of the opposite. Loved it as a kid (well, teenager) and it hasn't held up too well for me. Nicol Williamson and Helen Mirren are brilliant (as always), Patrick Stewart makes the most of a small role, but the rest of the cast is bleah...

Great cinematography, but such low budget art direction.

Although, it has arguably the best use of Carmina Burana outside of a Guinness commercial.
 
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