Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991): 15 INSANE Facts You Never Knew!

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves looked like a medieval adventure about an outlaw hero fighting injustice and stealing from the rich. But behind Sherwood Forest was a production nearly torn apart by rushed filming, friendship betrayals, secret rewrites, editing-room warfare, and a villain who became far more popular than the hero. Kevin Costner arrived with only three days before his first scene and later took control of the final cut. Director Kevin Reynolds was locked out of the editing room and skipped his own premiere. Morgan Freeman’s character had to be renamed after a stuntman accidentally discovered a potential legal problem. And Alan Rickman secretly rewrote the Sheriff of Nottingham at a Pizza Express, improvising some of the film’s most famous lines before winning a BAFTA while Costner won a Razzie. These are 15 weird facts about Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves — the kind that make one of the biggest adventure films of the 1990s feel even more chaotic once you know what was happening behind the scenes.