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Jamie Foxx Set To Play Little John In Robin Hood Origins Movie

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Jamie Foxx had better start piling on that muscle (and a bit of height too, while he’s at it) – his next role is set to be playing the traditionally towering Little John in a new origin story of Robin Hood.

Deadline reports that the ‘Django Unchained’ star is to take the role in 'Robin Hood: Origins’, opposite 'Kingsman: The Secret Service’s Taron Egerton, who is playing the lead.

Meanwhile, 'The Knick’s Eve Hewson (the actress daughter of Bono), is set to play Maid Marian, with Bafta-winning British director Otto Bathurst – of 'Peaky Blinders’ fame – will direct for indie studio Lionsgate.

The movie will start shooting once Egerton has completed filming the 'Kingsman’ sequel.

According to reports, the movie will be a 'Dark Knight’-esque take on the Robin Hood myth.

Egerton’s Robin will return from fighting in the Crusades, to find his home around Sherwood Forest riddled with evil and corruption.

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Assembling a band of outlaws, he sets out to mete out vigilante-based justice.

Scripting is Joby Harold, who recently penned Guy Ritchie’s ‘Knights Of The Roundtable: King Arthur’, starring Charlie Hunnam in the lead.

The movie follows the somewhat muted critical and commercial reception for Ridley Scott’s 2010 reinvention of the story, which starred Russell Crowe as Robin.

Despite additional star power provided by Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Lea Seydoux, William Hurt and Max Von Sydow, the film made $321 million (£222 million), not a huge return on its production cost of $200 million (£138 million) once the customarily large bill for marketing and advertising is added on.

Elsewhere, Egerton is next up in ‘Eddie The Eagle’, the biopic of ski jumper Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards, co-starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Dexter Fletcher. You can check the trailer below.

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