Only a few short years after Ridley Scott's Robin Hood movie with Russell Crowe, Hollywood is ready to go back to Sherwood Forest in a major way. Multiple films about the fictional outlaw are on the way, but the only one to have an actual director is Lionsgate's "gritty" Robin Hood: Origins, and now the search for the Merry Men's leader is on.
According to Deadline, Jack Huston (American Hustle), Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road), Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service), and Dylan O'Brien (The Maze Runner) are on the shortlist to star in the film, which will be directed by Peaky Blinders' Otto Bathurst. Right now it appears to be Reynor with a bit of an edge over everyone else as he had a successful meeting with the director. Others may have scheduling conflicts that interfere with them landing the gig, like Egerton who could be tied up with a 'Kingsman' sequel.So what separates this version of Robin Hood from the last one? Not much. After returning home from the Crusades he'll find that Sherwood Forest has been overrun by corrupt, so he gathers a band of outlaws to fight back. Joby Harrold, writer of Guy Ritchie's Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur, penned the screenplay, with a start date planned for early 2016.
