Before Batman, Bond, and seemingly everything else got the gritty reboot treatment in the early 2000s, Hollywood tried a similar thing with none other than Robin Hood. Unfortunately, 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" didn't quite manage to pull off its attempt at a rebrand of the classic English hero. In fact, these days it's remembered more for Kevin Costner's magnificent mullet and what co-star Alan Rickman called its "glorious mixture of accents."
That said, it's not like there's...