Crowe to play nice guy Sheriff of Nottingham

[edonline]

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2003470,00.html

In brief: Crowe to play nice guy Sheriff of Nottingham

Staff and agencies
Thursday February 1, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Russell Crowe is set to take centre stage in Nottingham, a revisionist version of Robin Hood written by Sleep Cell creators Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris. Produced by Imagine Entertainment, with backing from Universal, the film will star Crowe as a heroic Sheriff of Nottingham attempting to flush a murderous terrorist enclave from the forests outside town. "Part of the strength of the script was the simple idea of doing Robin Hood by making the Sheriff the good guy," Reiff told the Hollywood Reporter. Various big name directors, including Sam Raimi, Bryan Singer and Ridley Scott, are said to be circling the project, with filming due to begin at the end of 2007.

[therealjohng]

I'd pretty much watch anything that Crowe does. Add in the possibility of Scott direting and that pretty much guarantees me there opening night.

[bigred760]

I kinda like the idea; a little bit of role reversal: Robin Hood is the bad guy - he is an outlaw after all, and the Sheriff is the good guy. I wonder who wins in this version.

[thedudeman69]

Sounds cool. I am up for anything that Crowe is in.

[Monotreme]

Lol, if this isn't the perfect example of Hollywood capitalism mentality seeping into films then I don't know what is. Seriously, though, as long as Robin Hood has an English accent and they approach the movie with a serious and realistic tone, then I'm all for it.

[Shockwave]

AWESOME idea for a movie but if i hear the word "terrorist" one time im walking out.:p


ALAN RICKMAN needs to play ROBIN HOOD.:cool:

[Badbird]

I don't know. I don't think you can twist the legend of Robin Hood like that. What will probably happen is that in the end, Nottingham will realize Robin is actually working for good and that Nottingham has been mislead the whole time. Thus he ends up joinging forces with Robin Hood and blah, blah, blah.

[cocksmokinclerk]

interesting concept! can't wait for a more info

[RandalGraves]

Originally posted by cocksmokinclerk
interesting concept! can't wait for a more info

[The Young Son]

This sounds like it could only really work as a comedy. The Sherrif as a good guy? Come on.

And please, Scott and the other "Top directors" being classed as circling the project is a load of shit. Directors circle dozens of projects and I highly doubt that any of them has anything more than a tick next to this under the heading "Films to work with Crowe On."

[LordSimen]

I'd see any movie with Crowe especially if ANY of those directors rumored are attatched.

And it isn't THAT hard to twist the legend of Robin Hood into making the Sherif a good guy. I mean think about it. Back during the prohibition days many of the people supplying beer and licker were looked upon as good guys by people for selling the products to the people when many of them were actually criminal mobsters looking for a profit. You could can easily do something like that with Robin Hood, demystify the myth into showing that he could also have been a bad guy. His big job in life is stealing afterall.

[jolanar]

Robin Hood as a bad guy?! That just sounds plain stupid. The only way the movie would work is if Hood actually does turn out to be good.

This would be like remaking Star Wars and having Darth Vader be the good guy.

[Monotreme]

Originally posted by jolanar
Robin Hood as a bad guy?! That just sounds plain stupid. The only way the movie would work is if Hood actually does turn out to be good.

This would be like remaking Star Wars and having Darth Vader be the good guy.
It would, but wouldn't that be interesting? The humanistic galactic government is trying to gain control over all the people in the galaxy but a group of terrorist rebels keep trying to ruin things for them. Could be interesting ;)

[echo_bravo]

Crowe can play anything. I hope they keep Ratner's fatass as far away from this project as they can, cause he is an awful director.

[chasingbanky]

This reminds me of the true story of the three little pigs told by the big bad wolf.... Classic Literature indeed. This is one of those ideas i wish I had first. Brilliant it can be.

[Arlius]

Originally posted by Monotreme
It would, but wouldn't that be interesting? The humanistic galactic government is trying to gain control over all the people in the galaxy but a group of terrorist rebels keep trying to ruin things for them. Could be interesting ;)
It'll turn out that they're both just misunderstood.

[Rukas]

Hmmm the reversal of roles on the Robin Hood theme could prove to be interesting. I wonder if they will make Robin a bad guy, or a likeable bad guy if you get what I mean and Crowe the law enforcer that has to bring him in anyway.

Think "Point Break," set in a forest, in the twelfth century, with a bunch of men wearing tights and swinging on one anothers ropes and crossing swords, but with LESS homosexual undertones than the Swayze/Reeves version (and no surfing).