It honestly looks like something similar might happen in this Robin Hood, as the role of Little John is being played by Jamie Foxx, so perhaps those two will meet and become friends in Syria.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves opens with Robin of Locksley has a prisoner during the Crusades.
For Kevin Costner’s version of Robin, this opening set up the primary relationship of the film between Robin and Azeem, played by Morgan Freeman.
It sounds like the new movie will give us something very similar, as that’s about the only reason an Englishman would find himself in Syria during the era in which the film takes place.