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1* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/AlanRickman turned down the role of the Sheriff twice before he was told he could more or less have carte blanche with his interpretation of the character.
2* BreakawayPopHit: Music/BryanAdams's "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You". The song holds the record for the longest unbroken run at the top of the UK charts at sixteen consecutive weeks.
3* CaliforniaDoubling:
4** While most of the movie was filmed in England, it wasn’t filmed in Nottinghamshire, with Buckinghamshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, and Wiltshire all standing in, while Nottingham Castle was actually in France.
5** More precisely about Northumberland, the Sycamore Gap Tree and Hadrian's Wall were used as a random tree and wall in Nottinghamshire. The centuries old tree was felled on 28 September 2023 in an act of vandalism.
6* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/SeanConnery was first offered the cameo of Lord Locksley but passed, as he felt he had been playing a lot of fathers in recent years.
7* DawsonCasting: 61-year-old Creator/SeanConnery as 37-year-old UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart. Could double as ArtisticLicenseHistory, as the producers wanted Connery in the film in some way, and after he turned down being Robin Hood's father, Richard was the most likely role after that (and he is a very kingly actor).
8* DuelingMovies: Released the same year (1991) as ''Film/{{Robin Hood|1991}}'', starring Creator/PatrickBergin as Robin and Creator/UmaThurman as Marian. In the U.S., it got shunted off to TV and video because of the Creator/MorganCreek film, but it was released theatrically in other countries, including Britain.
9* FakeBrit:
10** Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio, Creator/ChristianSlater, Creator/MichaelWincott, and Creator/MikeMcShane.
11** Creator/SeanConnery is British, but King Richard was certainly not a proud Scotsman.
12* FakeNationality: Morgan Freeman from Tennessee plays Azeem, from the Middle East.
13* FatalMethodActing: Averted. Creator/BrianBlessed was almost killed filming his death scene.
14* FollowTheLeader:
15** The film copies so many of the unique and distinctive elements of the 1980s British Robin Hood TV series ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' that the creators of the latter actually briefly wondered whether they should sue. They quickly decided against the inevitable hassle and stresses, and just waved it all off.
16** This movie itself kicked off a string of costume drama/adventure films, including ones set in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and swashbuckler films in general.
17* TheForeignSubtitle: In Denmark, ''Robin Hood: The Outlaw''.
18* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: This movie was not the first time that Creator/SeanConnery, who made a legendary cameo as King Richard, had co-starred with either Creator/KevinCostner or Creator/ChristianSlater as he’d worked with the former on ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'' and the latter on another medieval film ''Film/TheNameOfTheRose''.
19* MoneyDearBoy: For his unbilled walk-on cameo at the end, Creator/SeanConnery received [[https://celebrity.nine.com.au/2016/05/03/09/40/actors-who-were-paid-huge-salaries-for-very-little-work#9 $250,000]], which he donated to charity.
20* PropRecycling: Creator/{{Kenner}} recycled ''a lot'' from their other lines [[http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/kenners-robin-hood/ to create action figures and playsets for this film]], most notably the ''[[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Super Powers Collection]]'' and various ''Franchise/StarWars'' molds.
21* ThrowItIn:
22** Creator/ChristianSlater ad-libbed Will Scarlet's line of "Fuck me, he cleared it!" after Robin and Azeem are catapulted over the castle wall. Kevin Reynolds kept it in the film because it was funny, despite the historical inaccuracy (though as has been pointed out several times on the main and YMMV pages, he wouldn't really have been speaking English at all anyway - think of it as TranslationConvention for a period-accurate curse).
23** Creator/AlanRickman ad-libbed the line about cancelling Christmas.
24** When Guy of Gisbourne is ordering his men to follow Robin out of Marian's courtyard his horse suddenly rears up. This wasn't intentional, but Creator/MichaelWincott managed to stay on the horse ''and'' finish his line, so the crew decided to use the shot.
25* TieInCereal: The film had a tie-in cereal with pieces shaped like arrows, shields, and archers.
26* UncreditedRole: Creator/SeanConnery is uncredited for his cameo role.
27* WagTheDirector: Creator/KevinCostner and Kevin Reynolds had a few disagreements onset, culminating with Costner, who was also a producer, taking over the editing of the film, going to the extent of physically locking the original editor Peter Boyle out of the editing suite. However, the producers were contractually obliged, under Directors' Guild rules, to show their cut to Reynolds. He was less than impressed with what they'd done to his film. It would only get worse with their [[Film/{{Waterworld}} next collaboration]].
28* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
29** This [[http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Robin-Hood-Prince-of-Thieves.html early draft]] is a lot more fantastical than the final version.
30** Creator/RobinWright was set to play Marian, but she had to drop out due to her pregnancy, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio signed on to replace her. Creator/ElizabethHurley, Creator/NicoleKidman, and Creator/AllySheedy were also considered, while Creator/SophieMarceau auditioned.
31** Creator/MelGibson was originally offered the role of Robin Hood. He turned it down, not wanting to do another period piece after starring in Franco Zeffirelli's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Creator/CaryElwes was offered the role and turned it down because he thought the plot was too contrived. He did, however, portray the character in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''.
32** Creator/JohnnyDepp turned down the role of Will Scarlet.
33** Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/JonFinch, Creator/MichaelGambon, Creator/RichardEGrant, Creator/JohnHurt, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/SamNeill, Creator/OliverReed, and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for the Sheriff of Nottingham.
34** Creator/RichardGriffiths passed on the opportunity to play Friar Tuck.
35** Music/MichaelKamen had composed the melody that became "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" years before he decided to use it to compose the love theme for this movie. Music/BryanAdams, however, was not his first choice as a singer or lyricist: Music/KateBush was, but she turned Kamen down. Music/AnnieLennox was then interested, but she wanted to write the song in Old English, which Kamen didn't like. Lisa Stansfield was also interested, but the head of her label said no. Former Music/{{Chicago}} singer Peter Cetera then wrote a song with the melody but Kamen wasn't satisfied with what Cetera came up with. Only after that did Kamen bring it to Bryan Adams, who wrote the final version with Creator/RobertJohnMuttLange.

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