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| Lathieza wrote: | Robin Hood
Genre : Action | Drama
Theatrical Release : May 14. 2010
Director :Ridley Scott
IMDB : here
Plot Outline : | Quote: | The story of how an archer in the service of King Richard the Lionheart became to be known as Robin Hood, the famous archer and outlaw of English Folklore.
Beginning after the Death of King Richard at the Siege of Chalus Chabrol, the film follows Robin on his rise to infamy among the English Barons and the newly crowned King John.
Featuring historically accurate characters such as Sir William Marshall and grounded in reality (in a similar way to Gladiator), this is not Robin Hood as you have seen him before, rather the making of the legend we have come to know him as now. |
Trailer : 1080P HD |
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| Quote: | This news should've been reported a long time ago courtesy of a scoop from CHUD back in July, but it wasn't. However, today we've got a second confirmation and it's worth mentioning again. Apparently Russell Crowe will be playing both the role of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham in Ridley Scott's Nottingham. Wait, what?! It doesn't exactly make sense now, but apparently in the actual script, Robin and the Sheriff are the same person. How will that work? I don't exactly know, but it has something to do with the way the story plays out and it's not just another Norbit-like multiple role gimmick (phew!). We probably won't know exactly what this means for a while, but it's a remarkably intriguing casting update.
Ridley Scott confirmed to MTV this weekend that Crowe will play both roles. Scott did say the roles would be "a a good old clever adjustment of characters. One becomes the other. It changes." When this news first hit back in July, it was discovered that this confusing plot twist was one of the areas of the script that really needed work. Thus, Scott halted pre-production on the film to give more time for the script to be developed into something that wasn't as confusing; or at least to take the time to work this characterization more intelligently into the story. Crowe mentioned to press this weekend that Nottingham is "one of those things where we're taking our time with. You don't want to be doing Robin Hood unless you're going to be doing it really f*cking well. It's got to be the best one ever done otherwise you should do something else."
Considering Nottingham is supposed to be a revisionist take on Robin Hood, I'm open to any crazy ideas Scott might have. There's no need to start complaining when I don't even understand how it would all work to begin with. And I'm not going to claim that it's a bad idea to even try and include it in the script when it potentially might be an intriguing twist, especially in opposition to the classic Robin Hood tale we're all familiar with. Ridley Scott is a great filmmaker, I have no doubts that he'll be able to pull it off. And Crowe is a great enough actor, that he'll pull it off, too. I guess it's just an incredibly interesting part of the story and I can't wait to see how it all works. What do you make of this dual casting in Nottingham? |
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Sep 2008 15:41 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Sep 2008 15:56 Post subject: |
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Heh will be interesting to see how that turns out.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 03:22 Post subject: |
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weird...and crowe as robin hood? sounds as bad as the costner version of robin hood
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 03:28 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | | weird...and crowe as robin hood? sounds as bad as the costner version of robin hood |
I doubt we'll see any corny moments of him winning tournaments, getting the feather winning a kiss from Lady Marion. It will more be like a double persona, him having one as a secret identity or he will transform from one and in to the other. I haven't read the adaptions of which they are building it on, though.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 03:51 Post subject: |
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Still, crowe is a tough guy you know? robin hood was never tough in my opinion. More crafty and slick and stuff. And i cant picture crowe running around in green stockings and crap. That would look to weird...i mean the gladiator running around in tights...? I dont see how they are gunna get it to work
The movie itself does sound interesting tho and I will probably see it. I just cant imagine crowe dressed up as robin hood.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 04:12 Post subject: |
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i thought only eddie murhpy was doing multiple roles in one film mostly
but russel? that doesn't even compute, how the hell he gonna play different characters at once, not bad enough that he will be in robin hood movie..
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 04:26 Post subject: |
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| zipfero wrote: | Again you adress the Robin Hood incarnation as being strictly Kevin Costner or even Mel Brooks adaptions. Or Disney's if you want. I doubt he will have a pointy hat, green tights and a crooked smile as that of a drawn fox  |
true, I will admit to that. But how else can you dress robin hood without modernizing him? its not like you can really change the robin hood look. He's not robin hood without the tights and the feather in his hate and stuff. Unless they make him look more like a warrior with armour and shit. I could go for that, itd be cool. |
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| Mortibus wrote: | i thought only eddie murhpy was doing multiple roles in one film mostly
but russel? that doesn't even compute, how the hell he gonna play different characters at once, not bad enough that he will be in robin hood movie.. |
Mike Myers did multiple roles long before eddie murphy did dude |
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 04:28 Post subject: |
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yep but not as much as eddie
i'm not saying they were succesefull, but he beats him in quantity
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 04:35 Post subject: |
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| Mortibus wrote: | yep but not as much as eddie
i'm not saying they were succesefull, but he beats him in quantity |
quantity for sure. Talent....I dunno. Eddies is talented, but i think Myers is the man when it comes to doing multiple characters |
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 07:15 Post subject: |
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| Mortibus wrote: | i thought only eddie murhpy was doing multiple roles in one film mostly
but russel? |
| SycoShaman wrote: | | Mike Myers did multiple roles long before eddie murphy did dude |
Seriously, Peter Sellers did multiple roles before either of these clowns were wearing diapers. |
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 07:49 Post subject: |
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Eddie Murphy... Who cares about Eddie Murphy? All his flicks are kiddie movies, while this is a Ridley Scott film. If he says he can do it, he'll do it, and he'll probably do it better than anyone has until today.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Sep 2008 09:18 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | | [/Ridley Scott fanboism] |
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 13:50 Post subject: |
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I <3 Ridley Scott.
Also, yea, Peter Sellers is the king of multiple roles. He was even supposed to play 1 more in Dr.Strangelove, but he got injured or something. I can't remember the specifics. He won an oscar for that I'm pretty sure.
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 14:12 Post subject: |
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Anything Ridley Scott (yes fanboi) I watch.
Wish that they would do a sequel to "Master and Commander" (one of Crowe's best parts) would be really cool with "Empire Total War" coming up early next year.
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 14:36 Post subject: |
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Anyone remeber this one 
CLEESE HOOD
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 14:39 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | | Mortibus wrote: | i thought only eddie murhpy was doing multiple roles in one film mostly
but russel? that doesn't even compute, how the hell he gonna play different characters at once, not bad enough that he will be in robin hood movie.. |
Mike Myers did multiple roles long before eddie murphy did dude |
No way man! Eddie was doing it in the early 80's, wasn't Myers first multiple roll movie in the 90's?
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 20:02 Post subject: |
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| [sYn] wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | | Mortibus wrote: | i thought only eddie murhpy was doing multiple roles in one film mostly
but russel? that doesn't even compute, how the hell he gonna play different characters at once, not bad enough that he will be in robin hood movie.. |
Mike Myers did multiple roles long before eddie murphy did dude |
No way man! Eddie was doing it in the early 80's, wasn't Myers first multiple roll movie in the 90's? |
naw man. only movies i can recal eddie being in, in the 80's was Beverly Hills Cop and few minor roles in some other comedies. |
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Oct 2008 23:11 Post subject: |
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it seems that in here Robin Hood might be the villain. this could turn out pretty good. +1 passenger on the R. Scott Fanboiii train.
oh and btw
1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets, Alec Guiness played 8 parts.
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Oct 2008 00:52 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | | [sYn] wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: |
Mike Myers did multiple roles long before eddie murphy did dude |
No way man! Eddie was doing it in the early 80's, wasn't Myers first multiple roll movie in the 90's? |
naw man. only movies i can recal eddie being in, in the 80's was Beverly Hills Cop and few minor roles in some other comedies. |
In "Coming to America" he played multiple roles, which is from 88. And its one of the really great Eddie Murphy movies, before he started only doing crappy ones. The first movie that Mike Myers did, that had multiple roles played by him was Austin Powers (97), which is nearly 10 years later. |
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| Lutzifer wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | | [sYn] wrote: |
No way man! Eddie was doing it in the early 80's, wasn't Myers first multiple roll movie in the 90's? |
naw man. only movies i can recal eddie being in, in the 80's was Beverly Hills Cop and few minor roles in some other comedies. |
In "Coming to America" he played multiple roles, which is from 88. And its one of the really great Eddie Murphy movies, before he started only doing crappy ones. The first movie that Mike Myers did, that had multiple roles played by him was Austin Powers (97), which is nearly 10 years later. |
oh, never saw coming to america. Is it good eddie? you know, tons and swearing and crude jokes? |
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nope, not much swearing from the main character, whcih makes it a charming difference to the movies before. But it definitly is oldschool-eddie-murphy fun. Watch it, its a classic imho
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If you only count feature films, then Myers' first multirole film was "So I Married an Axemurderer" from 1993.
Edie Murphy's first was indeed Coming To America.
Both of them had experience from sketch shows playing multiple characters before hand though around the same time(the early 80's).
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yeah , pretty good stuff
too bad for the production issues that plagued the movie , hopefully it'll be a decent director's vision cut
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