He's about to take a big step into the zeitgeist too, with his antagonistic turn as Orson Krennic in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
It seems he's working on getting another big turn lined up right now too. Variety are reporting that Mendelsohn is currently in negotions to take the main villain role in Lionsgate's Robin Hood: Origins,[...]
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"When Robin Hood was about twenty years old; he happen'd to meet Little John;
A jolly brisk blade right fit for the trade, for he was a lusty young man."
The original ballads of Robin Hood don't mention Maid Marion at all She was a later addition in the 16th century.
In June, Oni Press takes a trip back[...]
But in June, Oni Press are publishing a new homosexual take on Robin Hood called Merry Men, from Robert Rodi and Jackie Lewis.
13th century England Robert Godwinson, former lover of King Richard, lives with his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest, away from the watchful eye of Prince John, who has outlawed homosexuality[...]
Tony Lee already has one successful stint writing Robin Hood in the comic The Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood.
Now he's doing the same for the movies But in the future.
He's writing a future sci-fi Robin Hood screenplay for the production house The Hollywood Gang (300, Immortals), replacing both screenwriters Jason Dean Hall (American Sniper) and Michael[...]
I watched classic Robin Hood movies and researched narratives about Tuck and John I asked friends about what they would wear as clothes, accessories and jewelry, and what the color palette of these would be because the number of natural dyes was limited at that point in history.
Little John, for example, wouldn't be likely to[...]
Giving us a completely ridiculous Robin Hood that is suspect from the beginning And then making him more and more real And giving this family audience a fantastic time in the process My favourite episode since the 50th.
They say you should never meet your heroes. So who is the fiction and who is the reality, and[...]
Tonight's episode of Doctor Who, Robot of Sherwood was written by the talented Mark Gatiss (Co-creator of Sherlock and plays Mycroft) and stars Tom Riley (Di Vinci's Demons) as Robin Hood EW chatted with the two and specifically asked Gatiss what it is like writing for Peter Capaldi:
I've written for all four of the modern[...]
According to Deadline, the new series, from the creator of NBC's Dracula and the producers of The Blacklist, will position Robin Hood and his adversary the Sheriff of Nottingham as… the same person.
Called "a Game Of Thrones reinvention" of the Robin Hood legend, Nottingham will follow the Sheriff of Nottingham, who's secretly enraged over his[...]