Crowe and Scott Make It Four
Something familiar about this collaboration ...
Okay, you might remember we reported back in February that Russell Crowe was set to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in a new movie that actually treated Robin Hood like a dick and the Sheriff as a poor sap history (or at least the literary world) misjudged.
Well the project has landed a director and it’s none other than three time Crowe collaborator, Ridley Scott. This duo is one for two so far with Gladiator hitting big and A Good Year really, really missing. The jury is still out on American Gangster but it looks hella promising. If they continue on this pace, their next collab, (titled Nottingham) should downright suck. But I must admit the concept has me interested.
The official word on Nottingham is that Crowe stars as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a revisionist take on the Robin Hood tale, with Nottingham as a noble and brave lawman who labors for a corrupt king and engages in a love triangle with Maid Marion and Robin Hood.
Ridley Scott’s been a busy bee lately. Before taking on this bizarre spin on the Robin Hood story, he’s set to helm Body of Lies with Leonardo DiCaprio about a journalist who the CIA recruits to help capture an Al Qaeda leader. The screenplay will be written by Ridley’s Kingdom of Heaven scribe, William Monahan. Monahan is fresh off his Oscar win for The Departed and I’m as much looking forward to his next work as anybody else.
You can read the Variety article here.
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