Much like Snow White, cheap Peter Pan and Jungle Book before it, Robin Hood is just one of those literary classics that can’t help but be remade again and again. The English folklore hero has not only been the subject of an animated Disney film (featuring the voice of Brian Bedford as an anthropomorphic fox), but he’s also been the titular character of at least twenty different movies.

Everyone from Errol Flynn to Russell Crowe has played the beloved outlaw who robs from the rich and gives to the poor over the past 100 years or so. There are also four Robin Hood projects currently in development, including ones at Warner Bros., Sony and Disney, …

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