Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) on Netflix
PG-1319912h 23mActionAdventureDrama
Robin of Locksley escapes an Ayyubid prison in Jerusalem with the Moor Azeem. He returns to England to find his father murdered and the Sheriff of Nottingham holding the family lands.
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Plot summary
In 1194, Robin of Locksley comes home from the Third Crusade after years of captivity in an Ayyubid prison in Jerusalem. He escapes with his comrade Peter Dubois, and together they save the life of a Moor, Azeem Al Bakir, who pledges to remain with Robin until his life debt is repaid. Wounded, Peter asks Robin to watch over Marian, his sister. Months later Robin reaches England and finds his father, Lord Locksley, dead, and the Sheriff of Nottingham in possession of the family lands.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- With the project already over budget, Sean Connery agreed to cut his requested $1 million fee down to a $250,000 donation to a hospital in his native Scotland.
- In 2015 Alan Rickman revealed he had secretly asked his scriptwriter friends Ruby Wax and Peter Barnes to punch up the script, telling them it was terrible and he needed some good lines, and Reynolds agreed to add the suggested new lines.
- Robin Wright, then in line for the role of Maid Marian, dropped out when she found out she was pregnant, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, already in London working on a BBC production of Uncle Vanya, was cast quickly.
- Furious at the studio's repeated demands for yet another heavy edit to boost Costner's presence and stop Rickman's performance stealing the movie, and at the studio locking his own editor out of the cutting room, Reynolds walked out weeks before the theatrical debut and did not attend the screening.
SPOILER
In one scene Mortianna explains that she killed the true George Nottingham as a baby and replaced him with her own infant son, which reveals that she is the Sheriff's real mother.- The Los Angeles Times found the movie unsatisfactory, criticizing Costner for not attempting an English accent and mocking Robin's afternoon walk from the White Cliffs to Nottingham via Hadrian's Wall, a route that is actually 560 miles.
