Producers of 300 Putting Futuristic ROBIN HOOD Movie Back on Track

Gianni Nunnari's The Hollywood Gang, the production company behind the 300 movies and The Immortals, was one of the first companies to start development of a reimagining of the Robin Hood legend. They've been working on a "futuristic" take on the classic archer since 2009, and it's gone through multiple screenwriters, including Jason Dean Hall (American Sniper) and Michael Ross (The Throwaways), over the past few years. Now THR reports that the company is gearing back up to give it another go with the project.

They've just hired UK-based scribe Tony Lee to write the screenplay, which will be set in "dystopian London with a rogue MI5 agent on a mission to avenge injustice." Lee is primarily a comic book writer, but he has a few screenplays in the works at various places around town. This project's working title was once Robin Hood 2058, but there's no word yet on whether or not that will change with the new draft.

It's ironic that they're just now starting to find traction with this since, as I mentioned before, they were one of the first to see the potential in a reimagining of this character. Unless they get moving very quickly, though, they're probably going to get beaten to the punch by other studios: Sony, Warner Bros., Disney, and Lionsgate all have their own spins on Robin Hood in the works. Lionsgate's Robin Hood: Origins is seemingly the farthest along, with Kingsman star Taron Egerton on board in the lead role and Jamie Foxx set to play Little John.

No word yet on when production might begin on this one, but the futuristic setting might give this an advantage over its competitors because it might be considered different enough that audiences may still be interested in seeing it even if one or two other Robin Hood movies manage to beat it to theaters.