Comments on: Confusion Over Russell Crowe’s Role In ‘Nottingham’ Gets Cleared Up… Maybe

By: scanain

scanain — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:02:17 +0000

Robert Fure – thank you for stealing my thunder, was thinking the very same thing and thuo swinest frometh under me.

By: RobertFure

RobertFure — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:09:10 +0000

My prediction – Robin Hood sees Nottingham killed, assumes his identity. He live as Nottingham, eventually becoming corrupt which inspires a new Robin Hood to take up the mantle to fight old Robin Hood who is secretly new Nottingham. Thus the confusing circle is complete and the sequel is just a retelling of the original Robin Hood tale, with the added twist that Nottingham actually used to be Robin Hood.

… I hate Hollywood.

By: Nish

Nish — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:59:18 +0000

It sounds a bit retarded. Why is it being called Nottingham if he isn't in it? I preferred what the film sounded like before where Robin was the terrorist and Notts the good guy.

By: Alericc

Alericc — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:09:41 +0000

It would need to have a very good cast to even hope to over cme a weak story. Technically this reminds me of the Zorro mythos but set in medieval England.

By: Josh_Radde

Josh_Radde — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:04:58 +0000

Russell Crowe shouldn't be Robin Hood. There. I said it.

By: Joshi

Joshi — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:15:41 +0000

The only real way I see this working is with Robin having a "conflict" with his duel personality, somewhat like Gollum…

In other words, it'd end up being exactly like stuff we've seen before, only with Robin Hood for no good reason. Of course this is just conjecture on my part and may be entirely wrong (and I hope it is) but it seems like it'd be the only way to do it without simply having it turn into a generic "Hero fights bad guy" movie, in which case they could have just kept the original Sherrif.

I like the idea of a different take on the origin of Robin hood and even like the idea of the reversed polarity, but seriously, doing something interesting with it doesn't mean going weird… there's a difference.

By: daviedave_47

daviedave_47 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:48:28 +0000

Maybe they liked Tracy Ullman so much in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" that they are going to reintroduce her "Latrine" character as a viable sorceress in this one.

By: Hannibal

Hannibal — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:28:22 +0000

What about the possiblity of the villain being Guy of Gisbourne?

By: Davebaxter1989

Davebaxter1989 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01:56 +0000

I like it. I prefered the alter ego approach a la Batman/Bruce Wayne or Superman/Clark Kent. But taking over the personality of the Sheriff could be interesting. In saying that I LOVED the Christian Bale rumour but was also pretty sure it was false.