MGM+'s New 'Robin Hood' Finds Its Maid Marian as Series Cast Finalized
MGM+'s new Robin Hood adaptation has found its Maid Marian. Actress Lauren McQueen (Belgravia: The Next Chapter) has been tapped to play the legend's famous love interest opposite newcomer Jack Patten's outlaw hero. Though it sounds like she'll be just going by Marian in this version of the story — and that she will, for once, have an actual arc of her own.
Showrunner John Glenn reportedly aims to give this new adaptation of the classic story a more modern feel, attempting to make it (at least slightly) more historically accurate, adding some much-needed psychological depth to its often fairly straightforward character archetypes, and leaning into the romance between Rob and Marian in a way that treats both characters as equals.
This Robin Hood will be set in the years following the Norman conquest of England. Rob is a Saxon forester's son, while Marian is the daughter of a Norman lord. Despite the complications that arise from their different backgrounds and social positions, the two fall in love and work together to bring peace to their kingdom and justice to its people.
