Will Christian Bale Take On Robin Hood?
Filed under: Drama, Romance, Casting, RumorMonger
It's a day of big actors and big rumors. Aside from murmurs of Josh Brolin as Snake Plissken, The Daily Mail claims Christian Bale is in talks to play Robin Hood in Ridley Scott's upcoming film, Nottingham, which has already cast Russell Crowe as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Sienna Miller as Maid Marian.The paper says: "Nothing is signed for Bale, but director Ridley Scott is exceedingly keen to cast him." This could just as easily be false as it is true, but it wouldn't be surprising if Ridley was keen on Bale. The man has oodles of acting talent, and he's got increasing star power, so he's the perfect guy for a role like this. They say that costume fittings start next week, so we should know soon either way, as well as if Vanessa Redgrave and William Hurt will sign on.
Now, should this be true: I wonder how many iconic roles Christian Bale can take on before it's overkill, or whether he can just keep going and going like the Energizer Bunny. He's Batman, John Connor, and maybe now Robin Hood. Who's next?
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6-20-2008 @ 3:17PM
Kevin said...
This would be awesome. GIven the changed role of Robin Hood in this movie we would get to see a renewed interaction between Bale and Crowe, except this time the good-guy bad-guy roles would be reversed. I definitely hope this turns out to be true. And with how good Bale is in everything I certainly don't think I'll get sick of seeing him take on more and more iconic roles. Now they just need to make that Passion of the Christ 2 movie that I saw the trailer for. He'd be perfect.
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6-20-2008 @ 3:18PM
Kurt said...
Summer 2011, Christian Bale... is....
The Statue of Liberty
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6-20-2008 @ 3:44PM
sharky said...
When an actor is chameleon-like as Bale he can take on as many iconic roles as he likes with it never being overkill. Those characters are always the focus. He NEVER is.
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6-20-2008 @ 9:41PM
Randall said...
Just not Kevin Costner, please.
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6-21-2008 @ 12:57PM
Thomas said...
In this interview on CNN, William Hurt confirms that he will be in Ridley Scott's next movie:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/16/william.hurt/index.html
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6-22-2008 @ 7:04PM
andysrsm@aol.com said...
I want to be in this movie! HOW? Who's casting?
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8-11-2008 @ 3:17AM
Leteisha said...
It was really intoresting to read about christian bale for the first time and l;m a big fan of his and he is hot.
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