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Another quality actor joins Ridley Scott's ROBIN HOOD flick!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Of the flicks currently in production or in prep there are only a handful that I'm itching to discover more about. Ridley Scott's ROBIN HOOD is one of those (Gore Verbinski's BIOSHOCK is another, probably top of my list, actually).
They announced some Merry Men a few weeks ago and today we have William Hurt joining the team. Russell Crowe plays Robin Hood, Cate Blanchett is Maid Marian and Hurt will be William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, a master jouster and the only man to unhorse Richard the Lion Heart as legend tells it.
Whether or not you think we need to see yet another version of Robin Hood on the silver screen you gotta admit Scott's drawing a top notch cast.
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proof that nobody cares about this shit.
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Ridley is one of my fave directors tho....
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And I don't care.William Hurt was great on Damages this year!
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I lost interest when this switched from an unconventional take on the Robin Hood story by casting Crowe as the Sheriff, to this now being a straight ahead RH story. Do we need yet another re-telling, with actors that, let's admit, are a bit long in the tooth for these roles, including Hurt? I love Ridley Scott, but he's not above making crappy movies. GI JANE anyone?
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with each viewing. Directors Cut that is. Amazing film.
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Dickblood is going to be a standard talkback last name now.
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He has got to be one of the most distracting pressences in any theatrical release. Every time he's on screen, all you can hear is the shuffling of butts in seats and the footsteps of the throngs of moviegoers heading for a bathroom break.[p]Besides, how hard is it to get that guy to take a cameo role? Bus money?
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Quality. Say anything to the contrary, and I will trash your lights.
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you are dead to me.
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For some reason I used brackets rather than, the "pac-men," as my third-grade teacher called them.
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but his voice is just soooo droning! He's not as bad as Ben Stein, but its a close thing.
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Apr 13, 2009 9:31:16 AM CDT
By the way, cast Ian McShane as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
by leafar the lost
It looks like Kings will be cancelled, so I think that Ian McShane should be cast as the Sheriff of Nottingham. I don't want him to play the Sheriff like Alan Rickman did in Kevin Costner's awful Robin Hood. Rickman's performance was fun to watch, but it was just another typical movie villain. McShane could bring something more to the role. I hope that the Sheriff is written in a more human light. Most villains don't think they are villains; they think they are doing the right thing. If I was writing the script, I would make Robin Hood the bad guy. He was, after all, stealing from people. It doesn't matter that he was stealing from the rich to give it to the poor. Maybe he gave the money to the poor so they wouldn't rat him out to the Sheriff. I hope they don't make this Robin Hood like the other versions of it.
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...but it sure smells good!
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...when Orlando Bloom was cast in the lead role. That dude, who does a great impression of a redwood, makes Keanu Reeves seem like Cary friggin' Grant.
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Still if it's the purposed sequel to Kingdom of Heaven I shan't complain.
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villain! Why can't we have a villain that is actually, I dunno, freightening? I'm sooo sick of comic-releif villains like Alan Rickman's sheriff or Dennis Hopper's...well, every villain Hopper has ever played. Nor do I wish to see some villain who is not really a villain, but some wheepy, half-assed wuss-puss. No, I'm not asking for mustache-twirling, but damned close to it.
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Sounds interesting to me. Plus its got a pretty hot Maid Marian in the cast.
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are far better, look at Commodus in Gladiator. he was brilliant, and in many ways you genuinely felt sorry for him.
The best shade of grey bad-guy I ever discovered was the tyrant Brandin from Guy Gavriel Kay's book Tigana. That's how you make a cool villain. -
Ain't it the truth man!
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He was far too wheepy...far too weak. You want a propper villain? Lawrence Olivier's Crassus in Spartacus is far greater, at once more interesting, commanding and threatening. Just one more example of how modern films are usually mere shadows of their predecessors.
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Yea, I suppose I could see it. But I agree with moondoggy, he better goose up his delivery a little.
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Since I can't beat the "Remake/Reboot Machine," I'm proposing that Hollywood make it easy on itself. Let's pick about ten classic stories and just remakes them once a year. That will simplify things even further. Each year will be darker/edgier until in about fifteen years, we get actors illuminated only by candlelight, brooding at the camera and saying nothing for two hours. God-DAMN I love the motion picture business.
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Think of it William Marshall strutting his stuff through Sherwood Forest, cape flying behind him, afro blowing in the wind.
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KOH:DC was outstanding in my opinion and to have Ian McShane as the sheriff? That would be interesting. Im even more excited for this film every time I read an update on it.
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how many robin hood movies do we really need? i really dont care about the cast, as the story. the story has been done to fucking death! pitch something else in meetings, remake ben hur, cleopatra, the ten commandments or something. give me a movei about the mayan end of the world in dec 2012. something fucking else for gods sake!
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Apr 13, 2009 10:36:45 AM CDT
William Hurt is there to keep the movie from becoming exciting
by spyguy
I swear, that guy is like a black hole of acting. Every ounce of life during his scenes gets immediately sucked in and spat out in a white hole somewhere far, far away...
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like that but I could have sworn it said "Cate Blanchett is Martian Manhunter". My eyeballs need a tune-up.
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How anyone can think that this bland actor is good in anything is beyond me. He is a terrible actor!
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I hate Orloondo Bland. But the rest of Kingdom of Heaven is so good I can kind of accept him in it. Can't watch him in anything else though. Except when he falls out the helicopter in Black Hawk Down haha.
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Alan Rickman.
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Am I the only one that thinks the mannered American acting style is unsuitable for a British movie...ESPECIALLY a period piece? Not to mention this movie is going to be filled with middling, half-assed accents. Why is it that you can fill a whole movie with Brits playing Americans and nobody's the wiser, but a bunch of Americans in a British movie -- playing British characters -- is like a spray-on quality retardant.
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Even that proposed story about Robin and the Sheriff being one and the same would've been preferable to another fucking straight Robin Hood film. What's the point?
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You said it.
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Afros don't blow in the wind... they flex imperceptibly.
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Am I not entertained? Still, hope Ridders delivers
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Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Operative in Serenity, he genuinely believes he is doing the right thing to protect society from a group of shit disturbing bandits. Hurt was good in History of Violence going against type, when he went unhinged it was startling. Maybe Scott can get him to come out like Cronenberg did.
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...about a Robin Hood with a secret identity as the Sheriff of Nottingham sounded like a fun Middle Ages version of Zorro. But alas, we're getting another straight ahead RB tale. *Sigh*
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You must be kidding, he was a pantomime joke in Serenity! You think he's better than Robert Shaw in Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, or Gary Oldman in Leon? or Gary Oldman in 5th Element or fuck it, Gary Oldman in ANYTHING?
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His delivery is the same in all his roles. He has no range.
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None. I don't even want to see it on cable. Unless it's Robin Hood in Space there is nothing no one can add to all the many tellings of this story. If I were the exec I'd pull the plug on this turkey because this is the type of project that loses jobs. There is no clamoring in the world for another Robin Hood movie. It's a fact.
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If she can play Bob Dylan, surely she can play Jon Jonze (sp?).
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If there's any tv show that is due for a big-screen reimagining, it's Rocket Robin Hood!!!
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Shit sucks.
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...is Mr. Hurt. I have that on good authority. I suppose he'll fit in nicely with that other crew favourite Russell 'fighting 'round the world' 'don't cut my poetry' Crowe.
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This thing where we put the leading man of the hour into an iconic historical role has to stop. It's about as appropriate casting as 'Ben Affleck is...Robin Hood!'
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if you're proposing a faithful film adaptation of Rocket Robin Hood, you have my full support.
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You may be onto something, sir. Let's put all the batshit actors together in this. Throw in Gary Busey, John Malkovich, Tom Cruise, Billy Bob Thornton, Joaquin Phoenix and Crispin Glover. Tell them there is no script and roll cameras. I want to see THAT version of RH.
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Apr 13, 2009 12:42:38 PM CDT
OK but where's the BRITISH cast in this BRITISH legend??
by performingmonkey
It's FUCKING DISTRACTING having all these non-Englishers going da da da da da in my eyeline. Fucking hell, first we get Kevin Costner as Robin (he did a good job but he's not Robin Hood) and now we get everyone either Australian or American. What the fuck's going on, Ridley?? Crowe doesn't seem like Hood to me either. More suited to the Sheriff IMO as was per the original idea. I would have liked that. Now it's just gonna be a retread when we've already got the BBC Robin Hood series running atm (episode 3.3 aired on Saturday).
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And featuring Matthew McConaughey as Friar Tuck.
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Fact.
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to see a list of all films currently in production?
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kevin costner and mel brooks kinda set it all in stone for me
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there;s a web comic called "Robin Node" that was always a cool concept.
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Liam Neeson as Little John?
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why Robin Hood? Dammit, he could have made the new Dune instead of giving it to Peter "The Rundown" Berg.
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Woo hoo!
But seriously... William Hurt = wicked over-rated. My mailman is more charismatic screen presence. -
can suck a fart out my ass....just kidding
I can see people not getting down with him, I like the guy, and he has range...you just have to look. His acting is never over the top.
Now I dare a mutherfooker to say something bad about Carottop!!!! -
progress right?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Cwx73yi18
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and shoot space arrows and fight with space swords. marriane should have a space vagina too. and there should be cat people. naked cat people. from space.
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I can already imagine the sheer, ponderous weight in scenes with two or three of the A-list cast members. Which would work fine for Shakespeare, but I'm not sure it's appropriate for Robin Hood. Who knows, maybe these folks can all play against type and create a light result. But my spider-sense says, bad epic over-dramatization ahead.And in any case, this whole thing is unnecessary. The 80s ITV Robin Hood series rendered all future versions moot.
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To poop standing up while reading this
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this project and the casting -especially THIS casting - are not.
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Actually don't.
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002124.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
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Adult Star Marilyn Chambers Found Dead
I am sure AICN wont do anything about posting till after 2 weeks then its new news to them..
All of you geeks know who this was...many many tissues and lotion were used in her honor.
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And I'm getting kinda excited about this. Ridley is assembling quite a cast for this film!
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He should grow katanas from his hands and shoot lasers from his eyes. Oh, and he should teleport. That would be awesome.
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... he's just that sort of actor where the role virtually has to be written for him, cuz you know exactly what kind of performance you're going to get out of him. It's not a BAD performance. It's always a very good performance. But it's always a William Hurt performance. He's like Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, or Cary Grant that way. The opposite would be actors like Gary Oldman or Ralph Fiennes, where sometimes you don't even realize it's them until you've been watching them for 5 minutes.
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Not to say he isn't a good actor, just that he doesn't seem right for the part. Thought he was great in Damages. He's best playing morally ambiguous characters.
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Apr 13, 2009 4:18:58 PM CDT
Robin Hood's a boring politically-correct character . . .
by royston lodge
. . . no matter which way you slice it.
Now, if Ridley Scott was going to make a movie about Dick Turpin, THAT'S a movie I'd pay ten bucks for. -
. . . Black Adder. ;-)
Imagine, a reimagining of Black Adder as a serious historical thriller. JUST IMAGINE!!! -
Only problem is, you just KNOW they'd insist on putting Will Ferrell in it.
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Sounds like a role for Samuel L Jackson.
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very true...that mofo is distracting for some reason. He ruined the end of History of Violence...miscast in that and probably here as well.
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Yes, yes it all makes perfect sense.
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of the casting of Lester's Musketeers and not Disney's Musketeers.
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seriously it would be amazing...look it up on you tube if youve never heard of it
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what about him? he's like the Boba Fett of the robin hood universe.
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you see?
well this talkback has run it's course I feel. Cheque Please. -
looks like the grampa from King of the Hill
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I thought the movie was supposed to be flipped so Robin Hood was the villain....
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or Tall Man
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I thought the movie was supposed to be flipped so Robin Hood was the villain....
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Starring Robin Williams as Robin Hood. With Martin Short as Little John.
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Killing people from afar, taking their money and getting drunk with corset clad ladyfolk of dubious reputation.
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The Matrix. That's right. I said it. They could have done better with those sequels, and we all know it. They need a more sinister, less acrobatic touch; something Scott is able to give. Think about it, Ridley! That series needs redemption! Or at least some damn self-respect!
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this will be watchable, is if they link it together with kingdom of heaven. Have the same guy play Richard the Lionheart
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previous news was about Crowe as the Sheriff.
Then there were rumors of Crowe playing both parts.
Now it's Crowe as Robin? what's up with this? -
down Freshwater West in Wales. I hope to see some foightin' round the world when I go back there this summer. Harry Potter 24 too! Between this and being Christian Bale's home village we're doing well..
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I have seen a lot of films by that guy and I will never understand why he gets such good critical press. Maybe if he was in a Texas Hold Em' competition his lack of emotion would be an asset. On the silver screen, however, he doesn't appeal to me.
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Well, at least Costner isn't involved.
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... Bryan Adams away from the music duties!
I really don't have any hopes in this being any good - it's such a well-known story it requires an imaginative approach to make it interesting. Costner failed, the BBC failed, Richard Carpenter succeeded. Ridley 'more smoke please' Scott is a visuals-oriented director so it's guaranteed to look good, but unless the script, story and acting are foolproof, it's dead in the water. -
like poo...
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The ghost of Errol Flynn says,"Marion, my balls hurt!"
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I'm sorry, but the last good Robin Hood movie had a talking fox as the lead, and it was actually pretty good for a lowgrade Disney toon, but hell even it had two gay villians in it - a pansy limpwristed lion and a hissy priss of a snake - which proves that Robin Hood just can't be taken seriously in this day and age. Especially with that "rob the rich and give to the poor" stuff. Sounds like the current presidential administration which all sane men agree is TOTALLY gay.
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dude needs to lose a few pounds if hes playing robin hood
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I'm pretty sure that didn't exist in 13th century England (invented in 1959 by DuPont in fact).
Anyway, don't call him fat or he'll turn up on your doorstep in his little tugboat and read you some of his 'poetry'.
Don't say I didn't warn you. -
I am not gay, but if I was I would want him to direct me in a homosexual porno. Well if I was in a porno. Either him or Wes Anderson.
No just him.
Alien Blade running Gladiator hunks, but with out the gay porn. -
"I steal from the poor and give to the rich. Put that in your coffers!" This is something I'd much rather see.
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kingdom of heaven, there was a pretty good movie there, too bad it got cut to pieces. The dir cut is way superior, butn i also agree that the movie cant overcome the weakness of Bloom, who as someone above put it so well is like casting a plank of wood. However i think the plank of wood may have slightly more charisma...
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Hand over your lupins!
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Scott, i just cant get remotely interested in this movie. Firstly, RB has been done to death, whats next? another king arthur movie? Why do they keep going back and doing the same thing again and again? Why is there so few original ideas, and movies being made? Secondly, im getting sick of Crowe (who i think is a damn good actor) being in every Scott movie its getting boring now...
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Apr 14, 2009 2:08:14 AM CDT
There is only one Robin Hood, "Robin of Sherwood".
by stalin vs predator
Nothing else matters. Nothing else ever mattered. (Caught it?)
By the way, since this is set in medieval times, how will Crowe find telephones to throw at any filthy peasants who dare glance at him? Er, I meant, at Him? -
which one of you white guys think she is really fine? cmon, show yourselves. cuz this bitch is plain jane UGLY.
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I'm one of "those white guys". Don't be fucking crude, man. They should have gotten Kiera Knightley instead of Cate, though. She isn't a spring chicken, and there's no way a chick like that would STILL be on the market in medieval times. Hot chicks were usually sold off as soon as the law would allow, so having Cate as still single seems a bit far-fetched to me.
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It was medieval times. Maid marion should be missing teeth with good "birthing hips".
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Ugly, no you could not be more wrong. Hot chicks are a color blind issue. Even the grand master of the kkk wants to get busy with Bionce'. and the most militant black man would cut off a finger for a roll in the hay w/ Megan Fox.
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What the heck. I mean I dig her and all except for when she became a CGI freakout in LOTR ( which was way way way off base there P.J. ) But dang she's way to old to be *Maid* Marian
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played by Mary kate olson
Robin Hood by uncle Jesse
Sherif by Danny Tanar
And frior tuck by philip seymor hoffman. "do it do it."
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I could believe that *if* you've never seen A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE.
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And Cate Blanchett is ugly? Jesus tittyfucking christ. You pricks need to get a fucking life instead of sitting around hating anything and everyone. Or just go back to gobbling JJ's cock.
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It'll be interesting to see what approach they take in characterizing Robin Hood.
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this isn't indy jones.
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Who?? Apart from Crowe, Blanchett and Redgrave there is no-one in this movie. Some guy who was in LOST for a while, a ginger cunt from ER and some other tit. Please.
also Keira Knightly has no tits. Ask her. She'll tell you. and Cate Blanchett is the personification of female perfection. what sorry twank here wants to disagree. -
Dick Turpin would make an awesome movie.
that drawing of him holding the wench over the fire scarred me for life.
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Also, Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham was fun to watch...and Michael Wincott's Guy of Gisborne was the shite. Actually tho, the most refreshing and enjoyable version of Robin Hood lately has been the musical gits in "Shrek."
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Apr 15, 2009 10:32:06 AM CDT
Royston Lodge, the Cate as Martian Manhunter comment made me LoL
by brashhulk
But y'know, you gotta admit...she's got the forehead for it!
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a good representation of how Tolkien described that scene in the book.
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Please Ridley Scott, make another sci-fi movie. It has been so long since we enjoyed Ridley Scott sci-fi joy. We need it. The world needs it.
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