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Movies We Love: Kingdom of Heaven – The Director’s Cut Fox ordered Ridley Scott to extract about 40 minutes of footage from his original cut of the film, making the theatrical cut borderline incomprehensible, puny, meaningless, and a box-office bomb. With the additional footage added back in for The Director’s Cut the film transforms into something grand, gorgeous, and significant. By Adam Charles on March 17, 2010 | View Comments |
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New Robin Hood Trailer: Back Then, Everyone Was a Badass If Ridley Scott is doing one thing with his upcoming period action film Robin Hood, it is historical accuracy. Because in those days — I say “those days” because I don’t have time to Wikipedia the particular time period that Robin Hood may have lived like other movie bloggers — everyone was, in fact, a total badass. By Neil Miller on March 10, 2010 | View Comments |
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Robin Hood Demands There Be Liberty in His Superbowl Spot Universal Pictures has released the Superbowl TV spot for their upcoming action tentpole Robin Hood, from director Ridley Scott. The film stars Russell Crowe in the title role, as a crusader from the people who steals from the rich, gives to the poor and sword fights to some kick-ass heavy metal music. By Neil Miller on February 5, 2010 | View Comments |
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Robin Hood Trailer: This is Bloody Rock ‘n Roll The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood — which stars Russell Crowe as the bow-wielding outlaw of Sherwood Forest — has hit the web via YouTube this evening, and man does it rock. Literally. By Neil Miller on December 15, 2009 | View Comments |
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New Photos Reveal Russell Crowe in Action as Robin Hood Ridley Scott is back in the past, working on yet another epic period action film with Russell Crowe. This time, instead of going all the way back to the time of the Gladiator, Scott is taking on the story of Robin Hood. By Neil Miller on December 14, 2009 | View Comments |
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‘Monopoly’ Will Be Like Alice in Capitalism-Land I admit that I, too, scoffed at the idea of a Monopoly movie. I still do. It’s not just the cold I’ve been trying to beat for a few days. By Dr. Cole Abaius on November 12, 2009 | View Comments |
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7 Directors Who Could Handle ‘Dune’ Since Peter Berg might possibly, maybe, could not be directing Dune, we’ve decided to throw a few hats into the ring. Who do you think could helm one of the hardest science fiction adaptations of all time? By FSR Staff on October 28, 2009 | View Comments |
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Angelina Jolie Might Fit into ‘Gucci’ Once he’s done cutting up Sherwood Forrest with Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott is likely going to move on to Gucci, a look at the turbulent times in the 70’s and 80’s of the family-owned fashion label. By Neil Miller on October 21, 2009 | View Comments |
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Ridley Scott Takes on Brave New World It is back to the future for director Ridley Scott, who is developing a film based on the 1931 Aldous Huxley classic “Brave New World”. By Robin Ruinsky on August 6, 2009 | View Comments |
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Reject Radio: Episode 12: You Make Ghandi Look Like a Child Pornographer On a very special episode of Reject Radio, mistake guest host Landon Palmer for Bill O’Reilly, get pissed at movie marketing, and Neil has one more margarita than is advisable. By Dr. Cole Abaius on August 3, 2009 | View Comments |
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Ridley Scott Will Direct ‘Alien’ Prequel, The Question Is Why It’s been rumored for a little while, but now it’s official… Ridley Scott is attached to direct a prequel to his classic franchise-starter, Alien. Am I the only one who doesn’t see the upside here? By Rob Hunter on July 31, 2009 | View Comments |
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Danny Huston Saddles Up as King Richard in ‘Robin Hood’ Danny Huston is joining the cast of the upcoming Ridley Scott film Robin Hood, which is currently shooting in England. By Neil Miller on July 13, 2009 | View Comments |
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Ridley Scott to Revisit Alien? Right now it’s just wishful thinking on the part of Tom Rothman, but if Ridley Scott’s schedule clears up, he might be coaxed into going back into space. By Robin Ruinsky on April 28, 2009 | View Comments |
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First Look: Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood Earlier today we were talking about how fat Russell Crowe was in State of Play. This evening we get a first look at Crowe as Robin Hood, in which he doesn’t look fat at all. Curious. By Neil Miller on April 19, 2009 | View Comments |
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William Hurt’s Name is Earl in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood It appears as if William Hurt is now set to play one of the men who were present at the signing of one of the most important charters in British history. It is likely that is won’t make it into Ridley Scott’s new movie, though. By Neil Miller on April 13, 2009 | View Comments |
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Ridley Scott’s Forever War May Get a James Cameron 3D Injection Based on a book by Joe Haldeman, Ridley Scott’s next project after he completes the long gestating Robin Hood film is going to be a science fiction flick called The Forever War. And while the project is still way off in the distance, the director is already talking about going big with 3D. By Neil Miller on March 27, 2009 | View Comments |
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Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood Cast Complete, Ready to Begin Ridley Scott’s untitled Robin Hood film has started shooting with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett taking on the roles of Robin Hood and Maid Marion. This is the fifth collaboration between Crowe and Scott. By Robin Ruinsky on March 25, 2009 | View Comments |
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Monopoly Movie to Explore Real World Plastic Housing Crisis Ridley Scott and executive producer Brian Goldner promise a realistic, contemporary adaptation of the iconic board game. By Robert Levin on March 4, 2009 | View Comments |
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Blanchett Joins the Curious Case of Russell Crowe in ‘Nottingham’ Known for its fair share of minor disasters so far in filming, Nottingham scored a well-known and respected leading lady to play Maid Marian. According to the Telegraph, Cate Blanchett has joined Ridley Scott’s Nottingham playing the romantic lead to Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood/Sheriff of Nottingham. By Josh Radde on February 9, 2009 | View Comments |
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Universal Pictures has announced a planned big screen adaptation of the board game Candyland. Seriously. By Robert Levin on February 6, 2009 | View Comments |