Abacus Media Rights Launches Robin Hood for Presale

Abacus Media Rights, an Amcomri Entertainment company, has opened presale opportunities for Robin Hood, created by Jonathan English (Ironclad, SEAL Team, The Ark).

The new drama series will present a realistic version of the Robin Hood story, with the English vigilante and his fellow outlaws fighting the oppression of their Norman overlords. English/Glenn Media and Balkanic Media are producing.

Robin Hood is set to film at PFI Studios in Belgrade and on location around Serbia. John Glenn (SEAL Team, Eagle Eye, Allegiance) will showrun.

Head Gear, run by Phil Hunt, is on board to finance, along with the Serbian incentives program run by Serbia’s Ministry of Culture.

“All around the world people have heard of Robin Hood,” said Jonathan Ford, managing director of Abacus Media Rights. “There have been many highly successful iterations of the English hero of folklore, yet none has recreated the ruthless, tyrannical atmosphere of the time. This is a universal story of survival, conflict and love with spectacular action sequences set to strongly appeal to global audiences.”

English, creator, added, “I wanted to show the world the real Robin and researched the original ballads and justiciar records that still exist from the 12th and 13th centuries. They reveal a far more gripping and dangerous figure, a Robin that is gritty, authentic and deeply rooted in history. This is the Vikings or Peaky Blinders version of Robin Hood.”

“This is a version of Robin Hood I’d never seen before,” Glenn said. “Historically accurate, full of characters rich and complex, timely themes and loaded with action and intrigue. There are no damsels in distress, no men in tights; it frankly reads more like Peaky Blinders than any Robin Hood I’d ever seen.”