10 Movie Franchises Which Got Terribly Adapted TWICE
3. Robin Hood
Some might argue that there's actually been three awful big-screen adaptations of Robin Hood to date, but c'mon, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves isn't that bad.
Though 2010's Ridley Scott-directed, Russell Crowe-starring Robin Hood film was overflowing with potential, it ranks among one of the filmmaker's staler efforts to date, lacking in the expected personality and failing to even deliver diverting action sequences. It's self-serious enough to be genuinely boring. Where's the fun?
But Scott's film seems positively passable compared to 2018's disastrous Taron Egerton-led reboot, which attempted to update the classic story into a flashy tentpole flick with franchise potential.
Nothing works here - even the ever-reliable Egerton struggles to do much with the junk dialogue, while the action sequences are messily constructed and awash in nauseating CGI.
Thankfully for Egerton and everyone else involved with Robin Hood 2018, the world collectively agreed to just forget about its existence entirely. It's so anodyne that it doesn't even get a regular showing on "worst-of" lists.
How hilarious it is that Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights remains the IP's best live-action movie adaptation to date?