Fan Casting Prince John in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)

A paranoid strategist obsessed with stepping out from the shadow of his absent brother. While Richard bleeds for the Crusade, John is the man in the administrative mud of England, utilizing the King’s absence to systematically dismantle the regency and seize the throne. He is a high-functioning intellectual who understands that a crown is won with ledgers and strategic alliances as often as with steel. He is the central prize in a "War of Matriarchs," convinced he is a mastermind while being pulled from two sides. While Queen Eleanor manipulates his ambition to secure a more controllable heir, Alys of France fuels his mutiny to use him as a weapon of revenge against the Plantagenet line. John is so blinded by his hunger for the crown that he ignores the strings on his own wrists. To him, the rising legend of "The Hood" is more than a rebellion—it is a tactical obstacle and a personal insult to the absolute authority he is desperate to possess.