He’s no Sean Connery, but Danny Huston has joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood film, which is still as yet titled. Huston will be portraying King Richard the Lionheart, who, in the Robin Hood legend, is away fighting in the Third Crusade and whose brother, Prince John’s malevolent exploits cause Robin Hood to take arms against the kingdom. Continue reading Danny Huston the Lionheart
I remember back when this project was first being bandied about. Â It was called ‘Nottingham,’ it was the Robin Hood story told from the perspective of the Sheriff as if Robin Hood were a villain, it was going to star Russell Crowe, be directed by Ridley Scott, and it was going to be awesome. Â Now, it just sounds like it’s getting turned into another retread of the same old story.
Anyway, William Hurt has joined the cast of this same old story. Â He will be playing William Marchall, the Earl of Pembroke, who has been described as the “greatest knight that ever lived.” Â Whoever said that clearly didn’t see Heath Ledger in ‘A Knight’s Tale.’ Â He rocked that shit.
Hurt joins a cast that already includes Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Kevin Durand, Scott Grimes, and Alan Doyle. Â The film, which is as yet untitled, is currently filming in the UK. Â It is set for a May 14th, 2010 release.
Source: THR
This is just an update to a previous article we ran, where we gave you the rumor that Cate Blanchett was going to star in Ridley Scott’s ‘Robin Hood’, previously titled ‘Nottingham’. Word came down today that this news is official. Cate Blanchett will, in fact, be playing Maid Marian in the new ‘Robin Hood’.
Actor Mark Strong recently spoke with the UK’s The Telegraph where he revealed who may be stepping into Sienna Miller’s role of Maid Marian in the new Ridley Scott film ‘Nottingham’.
“I think Cate Blanchett is set to take the Maid Marian part,” said Strong, who is expected to play Sir Guy of Gisbourne. “She is a wonderful actress and it would make it a much classier film if she was in it.”
Miller was dropped from the project, because she was apparently too slim and youthful for the part.
What do you think? Is Blanchett a good choice for the part? Will this end up being a good movie? Is Sienna Miller really too slim? Let us now by commenting below!
Source: The Telegraph
Ridley Scott spoke with MTV last week where he revealed some interesting changes regarding his long in development film ‘Nottingham’. Â First of all, it’s not called ‘Nottingham’ any more.
I think we are just going to call it ‘Robin Hood’,†Scott revealed. “We start in almost 2 months.â€
Scott also explained that the idea of casting Russell Crowe in multiple roles had been scrapped long ago.
“[Crowe as both Robin and the Sheriff of Nottingham] was an idea so far back, way back when at the time I had this proposed to me, and I read it and thought, ‘I don’t really know what it does for it, but it’s alright’,†Scott recalled of the now-abandoned idea. “It is better to simply have the evolution of a character called Robin Hood, who will come out of a point in the Crusades which is the end.â€
Because of this, the role of the Sheriff will be a much less important role than previously believed. Â The real villain of the film, then, will be the entire country of France.
“It is from France. It is the French,†he insisted. “The villain is much bigger in that sense; much more important, and much more dangerous.â€
“[In] 1066 Harold II went against William the Conqueror. Harold took an arrow in his eye, and William the Conqueror took over England, and so France owned everything right through,†Scott explained of the turmoil of that age. “Even to the extent of changing the architecture of the churches from Anglo-Saxon to Roman, that’s French; they changed the arches in the churches.â€
Scott also went into the rumors that Crowe wouldn’t be physically fit to play the role.
“Oh that is silly; all that stuff is bullsh-t,†Scott insisted. “He is going to be totally fit. That is not a problem at all.â€
“And he’s been working on his bow and arrow for about 4 months,†Scott revealed. “He sends me tapes of him hitting targets at about 45 meters. He’s pretty good!â€
What do you think? Â Are you excited to see what Crowe and Scott have up their sleeves for ‘Robin Hood’? Â Did you think it was more interesting when the film was going to be from the perspective of the Sheriff? Â Do you think Crowe will be going in and out of his English accent just for nostalgia? Â Let us know by commenting below!
Source: MTV
Actor Mark Strong recently spoke with the UK’s The Telegraph where he revealed who may be stepping into Sienna Miller’s role of Maid Marian in the new Ridley Scott film ‘Nottingham’.
“I think Cate Blanchett is set to take the Maid Marian part,” said Strong, who is expected to play Sir Guy of Gisbourne. “She is a wonderful actress and it would make it a much classier film if she was in it.”
Miller was dropped from the project, because she was apparently too slim and youthful for the part.
What do you think? Is Blanchett a good choice for the part? Will this end up being a good movie? Is Sienna Miller really too slim? Let us now by commenting below!
Source: The Telegraph
A few weeks back, we brought you word that ‘Wolfman’ may get delayed from its April 3rd release date. Â It is now official. Â It will now be coming out on November 6th, a delay of over eight months.
Reps from Universal Studios told Variety that the move was to give the film a more high-profile release, as well as ample time for post-production.
On other release date news from Universal, ‘Fast and Furious’ is getting pushed up to April 3rd to fill the spot ‘Wolfman’ left open. Â This gives Universal only one, June release, ‘The Land of the Lost’ starring Will Ferrell, which comes out on June 5th.
Universal also announced that the Ridley Scott-directed, Robin Hood film, ‘Nottingham’, was getting bumped out of 2009 altogether. Â The film, which stars Russell Crowe, did not get another release date announced, but the film will come out now sometime in 2010.
What do you think? Â Are studios putting too much faith in when their films are released? Â Should ‘Wolfman’ have been completed ages ago? Â What do you think the delays are on the film? Â Let us know by commenting below!
Source: Variety
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Too bad, so sad….Ridley Scott’s ‘Nottingham,’ starring long time collaborator Russell Crowe, has been postponed indefinitely. Universal said in a statement that the film, which had an August start date, was shut down due to a “cloud of the SAG strike”, “the film’s forest locations need to be green,” and the project’s script. “The current version of the screenplay,” the studio said, “is not yet where the studio and the filmmakers want it to be in terms of realizing the full value of the story. Universal could have moved forward with one of these challenges, but the confluence of the three caused the studio to reconsider and take the time for all conditions to be optimal.” Having read the Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff script, even with the Brian Helgeland rewrite, I think Universal’s worries are justified.
Produced jointly by Universal and Imagine Entertainment, ‘Nottingham’ is a different variation on Robin Hood’s notorious bad guy. Even though no new production date has been set, Crowe, Scott, Imagine, and Universal are still attached to the project. This October, look for Russell Crowe in ‘Body of Lies,’ the fourth collaboration with Ridley Scott.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
