Disney+ Sets Another Live-Action Remake with ‘Robin Hood’

Robin Hood” is getting the live-action, hybrid treatment at Disney+, which is developing a remake of the 1976 animated classic with “Blindspotting” director Carlos López Estrada at the helm.Variety reported that the studio will bring Kari Granlund, who wrote Disney+’s live-action “Lady and the Tramp” launch film, to write the screenplay.

Justin Springer, who produced Disney’s “Dumbo” remake, will produce the “Robin Hood” remake.

Like Disney’s “The Jungle Book” and “Dumbo” reboots, the upcoming “Robin Hood” film will mix CGI with live-action.

The deals closed in early March.

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