The NOTTINGHAM Mess Cleared Up!
Okay, this post contains some pretty substantial spoilers for the upcoming Ridley Scott/Rusell Crowe Nottingham flick, so if you want to turn away, do so NOW. If you want the dirty details, make the jump!
Still here? Cool! The uber-producer with Sonic the Hedgehog hair, Brian Grazer, has gone to MTV to clear up the rumors about the roles that Crowe will be playing in the film. When word broke that Crowe would be playing both the Sheriff and the legendary outlaw Robin Hood, people began to buzz online that perhaps this version would present Nottingham as a kind-heartened guy who masquerades as Robin Hood on the side. Not so, according to Sonic:
““The two role confusion is that what Robin Hood does is he sees Nottingham in battle very early in the movie and Nottingham dies. And Robin Hood takes over the identity of Nottingham. That’s how it plays out.” Grazer went on to call the film “an origin story” for the characters.”
Hmm. Not too sure how I feel about this news. I sort of liked that Internet rumor better than Sonic’s news, but perhaps Ridley and Russ can pull it off. Can’t be worse than A Good Year, can it? CAN IT?
3 Responses to “The NOTTINGHAM Mess Cleared Up!”
I have to say that this is beginning to sound a little bit… well… “bad” if you ask me.
The ‘duel’ roles thing was bad enough, but now – what? It just so happened that Robin Hood and Nottingham looked like each other to the extent that one could take over from another? Or what, Hood and Little John stopped over at Sherwood Forest’s Plastic Surgery Outlet and got himself “done” to look like him.
It just sounds naff. And, on a personal level, Crowe’s hair during the BODY OF LIES press circuit with that swept back half-mullet, half hippy, half- whatever hair do of his that he says is for NOTTINGHAM just puts me off further.
… Hmmm, saying that though, it IS Ridley Scott! :s
He did look like a greasy old man. What the **** happened to this guy? I watched L.A. Confidential in a film class last night, and the guy was pretty damn cute. Now, he’s a bloated mess.
And that hair has GOT to go.
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