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Danny Huston will make a fine King Richard, the Lionheart in Ridley Scott's ROBIN HOOD flick!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. You may be thinking "Why do we need yet ANOTHER retelling of the Robin Hood tale?" And I agree with you, but at the same time I'm really anxious to see all these great actors playing in the same sandbox.
Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt and now Danny Huston as King Richard... in a Ridley Scott retelling of the tale. I'm at the very least intrigued.
I do wish the film had played out as rumored... with Crowe playing Nottingham and telling this tale from the Sheriff's point of view. That's fascinating to me, as was the rumor of Crowe playing both Nottingham and Robin Hood. I don't know if that ever got officially denied, so maybe we'll still get that, but I doubt it.
Huston will make a good King Richard. Despite his poor showing in WOLVERINE I'm still a loyal fan of his. He was great in the misfire that was 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, fantastic in CHILDREN OF MEN, THE CONSTANT GARDENER, as Orson Welles in the underseen FADE TO BLACK and THE PROPOSITION. And I can. Not. Wait. To see him as Poseidon in CLASH OF THE TITANS.
Anyway, that's the word according to The Hollywood Reporter.
And am I high or was it reported a while back that Rhys Ifans had this role? I guess that either fell through or was BS to start with. I think this is better casting to be honest.
What do you guys think?
-Quint
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stories or legends. They really shouldn't be considered remakes. Just like there's no definitive film versions of Shakespeare's plays, these kinds of movies can reinterpret these tales again and again.
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Jul 13, 2009 6:35:09 AM CDT
I wonder how many people have played Orson over the years.
by knuckleduster
Liev Schreiber in RKO 281. Vincent D'Onofrio in Ed Wood. Angus Mcfadyen in Cradle Will Rock. I'd still love to see Tim Robbins give it a go.
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and you are a leaf driven by the wind."
Robin of Sherwood is still the best ever telling of the Hood legend. Especially the double episode 'The Swords of Wayland' and the final Praed episode 'The Greatest Enemy'. -
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Still bitter after Ralph Machio sold you cheese and beat up your best students?
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Sounds great if it's done from the Sheriff's perspective. I certainly like the sound of that.
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Awww, I love that movie. Of course, I'm a sucker for even good-bad movies in the vampire and zombie genres. 30 Days of Night just had a true sense of stalking (with them hiding in the attic, under floors) that most vampire movies don't draw out...
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Who lets you guys out of your cages?
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Damn Titbag, i've actually defended you on these boards in the past. And now... you invent new words such as SHTICK to stab me in the back with?
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seriously..with so many shithole horror films...it was a fucking classy execution of the graphic novel. How the fuck can anyone diss that film?
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Huston doesn't act in the film. He basically plays himself.
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He'll make a fine Lionheart
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You know, like we got for STAR TREK? Just curious...
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Come on, EVERYONE knows the Robin Hood story. The BBC Robin Hood series has just been axed after they killed off Robin, Marian, Guy AND the Sheriff! The basic Hood story was all there, so it's only JUST been retold. Scott's film better be different to any other Hood adaptation. It DID sound like it was going to be originally, with the Hood/Sheriff dynamic being shaken up, role reversals and all that, but now it just sounds like the same old stuff. What it needs to have is connections with his Kingdom of Heaven movie, it should feel like it's sequel.
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...beats Marleee Matlin. Oh wait. That was real life.
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With such a Ludicrous plot and script, I don't even think Charlton Heston would've done a better job.
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go with Cate Blanchett
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Lets hope he can do a better job in this flick.
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...who barely set foot in England, then?Just so's we know.
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C'mon, someone had to mention it!
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Was just thinking about his role in The Proposition a few days ago.
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Wolverine proved it beyond a doubt.
And, erm...anyone British IN this film?
(as long as it isn't Jonas Armstrong....)
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there's so much an actor can do when surrounded by hacks.
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Alan Rickman isn't dead yet, stop trying to have his career.
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Characters, just Danny is trying to become the next Alan Rickman.
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Something about Danny Huston puts me off. And the whole look of it with the short hair and Kingdom of Heaven-ness. I think I can skip it.
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Agreed, ROS was the quintessential interpretation of the Robin Hood legend so far. It did great things with the Pagan/Christian religious tensions of the time. And I think it may be the first version to introduce a saracen warrior into Robin's men. It was a great series.
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Really, RS almost did Dune?! That is fascinating. I read somewhere that Lynch was offered Return of the Jedi. I wonder, if Lynch had accepted, passing on Dune, would Scott have taken on Dune and then what would have been the fate of Blade Runner?
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I hope they reboot Song of the South Next.
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instead of turing it on its head to try and grab attention. I really disliked the idea of "the telling of the legend from the perspective of the sherriff, or the notion that Sherriff and Robin were both the same man."
For me, the Robin Hood legend is one of the most important legends humanity has created. It says so much about the rights of the governed and the need to draw a line on the sand when the government disregards those rights. I think the story at it is, is powerful enough to stand the way it does without any gimmicky changes with the plot, or hacking off Robin's dick and calling her Starbuck.
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Jul 13, 2009 4:53:56 PM CDT
he was also good in THIS, THIS, wonderful in THAT and THAT
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
I doubt you sat there and said "That guy is making this movie". to any of those movies..but's it's nice to know you base your stories off IMDB and just try to work your words around filmography
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That sentence makes no fuckin' sense.
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farted
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This junk certainly won't be another. Did you read its script? It's online. And it's pathetic.
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Remus is the half-brother of Johnny's grandmother. So you have a family dynamic that's observable to most- with Johnny's mother being in denial about the whole thing. She can't cope with the idea that Remus may be her uncle by blood, and it becomes just another race issue with her and her more liberal husband. But it all ends well, with Remus having his family's backing when he decides to run for office.
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He never actually spoke English.
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X-Men Origins had two good actors that had previously played Orson Wells in it. Huh.
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