Director X Talks Re-Imagining The Story Of Robin Hood For New Series, Reveals How The Idea Came About
etcanada.comCanadian filmmaker Director X is revealing how his new Global original series, “Robyn Hood”, came about. Director X — whose real name is Julien Christian Lutz — chatted to ET Canada’s Brittnee Blair ahead of the show’s premiere next month.
The show “follows Robyn Loxley and anti-authoritarian masked hip-hop band, The Hood, as they call out injustices and fight for freedom and equality in the city of New Nottingham.” READ MORE: Global Announces Fall 2023 Premiere Dates For ‘Survivor’, ‘Robyn Hood’, ‘Yellowstone’ & More The eight-episode, one-hour series stars an up-and-coming cast featuring Jessye Romeo, Nykeem Provo, Idrissa Sanogo Bamba, Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova, Jonathan Langdon, Sydney Kuhne, Ian Matthews, Kira Guloien, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz and Lisa Michelle Cornelius.
Lutz said of what it was about this project that made him want to take it on: “I mean, it was an idea. I was in London shooting a music video, and it just kind of hit me like, ‘Oh, a modern day Robin Hood.’ That feels like a no brainer.
And then it just developed. “You know, when my partners came in, and different writers, we had all these conversations and spoke about well, what if it was Robin with a ‘y’?
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