John Glenn and Jonathan English take us inside the beginning of 'Robin Hood'

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John Glenn, the Executive Producer, and Jonathan English, the Director, of the new series 'Robin Hood' on MGM, sat down to discuss their motivations for creating the 'Robin Hood' series and why it deserved a modern interpretation.

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00:00from your international odyssey the two of you do not have to look so serious because

00:04definitely about to have some fun i take my hat off to you though the both of y'all got me because

00:10i was like where else is this story gonna go how else is this story gonna be told and i can admit

00:17it felt personal that's a great great note right great insight when you guys put this from paper

00:23to screen to thought what envision did you see first a lot of it is what you're talking about

00:30is how to humanize that how to humanize that story how to make it personal you know and and for for us

00:36it began with going back in further than you than just starting with you know robin hood is robin

00:42hood it's like who was he and we're doing it with the sheriff in the same way trying to sort of make

00:45them human and grounded so that you get to know them you know and then you it i for for i think

00:51both of us it helps you kind of pulls pulls you along because you feel bonded to them what you

00:56felt is really encouraging to us because that was the idea now i don't know if y'all did this

01:01personally you do know your story kind of tells the time of now i'm watching people's history get

01:08taken away from them now when it comes to that as creators is that a scary line to dance on when

01:15reality and story kind of hit at the same time we weren't trying to do that the more we

01:21kind of dug into the true story of robin hood parallels with today they they've always been

01:29there you know that ultimately there's always been this thing of class it's been class has been there

01:35in in civilization sadly from the beginning you know it's very very seldom of their periods where

01:41there's you know balance right right no where there's balance you know in a way robin hood is a

01:47kind of batman of his period he fights for the common man you know he's an avenger he's a vigilante

01:53he's a rebel he's a mujahideen fighter i mean he's all of those things you know his myth uh persists

02:00because he sort of represents yeah i mean it's amazing how all over the world people have heard of robin hood

02:17that will notinen you know what it's amazing you know that it's hallway i mean that they love to work with

02:21you know so i guess they can always add to them on this project and because of what is happening

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