Robin Hood could be returning to the big screen courtesy of Sony, with a series of team-up movies akin to The Avengers...
Marvel didn't just release a string of hit films with its Cinematic Universe - it created a lucrative business model that other Hollywood studios are, it seems, tripping over themselves to reproduce.
The team-up movie concept pioneered by The Avengerscould be about to break even further out of the superhero genre, as Sony is reportedly in the middle of signing a deal that involves Robin Hood. Writers Cory Goodman and Jeremy Lott - the former responsible for Priest, the latter the screenwriter of forthcoming supernatural mystery The Falling - are the creative minds behind the project, which could take the form of seven movies.
The project, currently called Hood, is apparently worth a seven-figure sum, and is said to be in the vein of The Avengers, Mission: Impossible, and Fast & Furious. This could imply that we're in for a string of heist movies set in the Middle Ages, with Robin Hood as the Ethan Hunt-style lead and the rest of his Merry Men as his bickering side-kicks. Or the Avengersinfluence could mean we're in for a series of films, each dealing with an individual member of those Merry Men, all building up to a full-blown Avengers extravaganza. If this does happen, expect a Friar Tuck movie in cinemas very soon.
More on Hoodas it comes in. Until then, we'll leave you with this:
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