Robin Hood + Gladiator = Nottingham!
Filed under: Action, Drama, Universal, Remakes and Sequels
At least that's what producer Brian Grazer would like you to believe regarding his upcoming "reversal" on the Robin Hood legend. According to the MTV Movies Blog, the revisionist epic Nottingham will be the Gladiator-ish version of an oft-told tale. And since he's already got Ridley Scott as director and Russell Crowe for his leading man, this seems to be a pretty logical direction for Grazer to lean towards. (Plus all those box office receipts, Oscar wins and DVD sales make for a pretty alluring formula.)Here's what the producer had to say about the project: "Nottingham is the Gladiator version of Robin Hood ... I think it will have the same propulsion that Gladiator had - the same adrenaline hits." Sir Ridley also chimes in with a few vague-yet-contorted plot threads, but you'll have to visit the source to check those out. I will tell you that the script was written by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris (yes, the guys who gave you Demon Knight and Bulletproof Monk), but the IMDb indicates that Brian Helgeland is also attached to the project -- which is good news because he's a fine screenwriter. Plus he also wrote the best AND the worst film of 1997, and that's just strange.
More on Ridley Scott's Nottingham as it becomes available. This one sounds like it could be pretty cool, and double my interest if they make it rated R! (Yeah, right.)
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10-24-2007 @ 8:57AM
Sunny said...
Scott and Crowe have said that they have often talked about the possibility of making a sequel to Gladiator... and examined all the possibilities, including the idea that Maximus was still alive when his comrades carried him out of the coliseum.
However, they say they realized it would be a hard story line to do convincingly and put the idea onto the far back burner.
The idea that elements of Nottingham could be inspired by Gladiator's story arc is brilliant. This part in particular... "“You’ve got the returning Nottingham who is the right hand man of Richard and witnesses Richard taking the arrow,” Scott revealed. “And so he comes back to England to carry forward Richard’s dream about England.” sounds very much like Maximus story, who eventually tried, tragically, to implement Marcus Aurelius' dream for Rome.
I've high anticipation for Nottingham.
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10-24-2007 @ 7:42PM
elessar said...
So am I, Sunny. BTW, Scott, as I understand it, Helgeland is doing a complete rewrite of the Reiff-Voris script and has been at work since early June. Sounds really interesting. One question: who would play Robin Hood? My picks: Paul Bettany, Christian Bale, Billy Boyd.
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11-11-2007 @ 11:48AM
robin hood said...
This sound appalling. Hollywood has consistently failed to make a good Robin Hood film. Flynn was Flynn, not Robin. He acted no different than when he did Custer. Costner was way too old, and stuck with the worst Marian of all time.
Robin of Sherwood remains definitive. Jonas Armstrong is great, as was Richard Greene. England doesn't attempt to make Jesse James films because we'd be rubbish at it. Hollywood should follow our example where Robin Hod is concerned. Come see pictures from every Robin Hood film here:
http://robinhoodtree.blogspot.com/
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