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Revisionist 'Robin Hood' Adds Sienna Miller to His Stash For the Poor
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 3:15 AM on June 19, 2008
Announced in April as approximately the 20th collaboration in development between Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott, Nottingham promises the duo's stylish, "revisionist" take on the Robin Hood legend — produced by Brian Grazer, natch, thus establishing the film as a sure-fire front-runner for the 2011 Oscars among people who keep track of these things. They're out there, and we hear them twittering a little louder this morning as Sienna Miller is officially so! thrilled! to be attached to portray Maid Marian:
"I just found out," Miller, 26, tells the BBC. "It's the most exciting news in the world."
This isn't any old Robin romp: This time in Sherwood Forrest, the usually villainous sheriff is due to be portrayed as heroic, while Robin - traditionally known for nobly stealing from the rich to give to the poor - is not. ...Casting for the Hood has yet to be announced.
We were under the impression that "revisionist" simply meant Grazer and Scott may splurge on a dialect coach for this version, thus avoiding the dodgy English accents that torpedoed Kevin Costner's mullet-hero stab at Robin Hood in 1992. Instead, look for the crafty filmmaker circumvent both the old myth and a near-certain SAG-strike hangover by simply hiring Denzel Washington, tweaking a few lines from the American Gangster script, jamming everyone in the forest for eight weeks and letting the testosterone do the rest. He's not Ridley Scott for nothing.
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]
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kookla
Posted 4:16 AM 19/6/08
@CourageousCoward: Laid Marian is brilliant. Unlike Sienna who hasn't been in a hit since...well, ever.
kookla
CourageousCoward
Posted 4:09 AM 19/6/08
Sienna Miller is officially so! thrilled! to be attached to portray Maid Marian:
"I just found out," Miller, 26, tells the BBC. "It's the most exciting news in the world."
BUT
"unfortunately, there was a bad connection and as it turns out, my character is 'Laid Marion.' which thrills me even more!"
CourageousCoward
kookla
Posted 6:00 AM 19/6/08
@aspiringexpatriate: True dat. But Layer Cake was in 2004!!
kookla
Xylo
Posted 5:49 AM 19/6/08
They may have to hire a dialect coach in any event, Crowe being notoriously bad with accents and all.
At one point during the publicity tour for "Gladiator" he said Scott and he clashed over the General's accent; he was called "the Spaniard" in the film, Crowe wanted to do it Spanish. Scott thought British would be better, he won. No one asked Crowe whether in first millennium Spain there would have been any such thing as a "Spanish accent".
Xylo
Benovite
Posted 5:28 AM 19/6/08
She's so cute. ^_^
Benovite
el smrtmnky
Posted 5:24 AM 19/6/08
@aspiringexpatriate: mmmmmmmmmmmmlayercake.
sorry, a vision of daniel craig in that movie momentarily made me woozy.
el smrtmnky
Losin_it
Posted 5:19 AM 19/6/08
"This time in Sherwood Forrest, the usually villainous sheriff is due to be portrayed as heroic, while Robin - traditionally known for nobly stealing from the rich to give to the poor - is not. ... "
Sounds like a Republican fantasy.
Losin_it
aspiringexpatriate
Posted 5:18 AM 19/6/08
@kookla: Layer Cake?
I love that it's "revisionist" to portray an outlaw as...well...an outlaw. yay legends!
aspiringexpatriate
Juancho
Posted 7:44 AM 19/6/08
Nottingham is already slotted for November 6th of 2009.
@Little Mintz Sunshine: Hey, they're both good!
Juancho
Benovite
Posted 7:06 AM 19/6/08
She was good in Factory Girl.
Benovite
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 6:48 AM 19/6/08
"Layer Cake"...you mean "The Long Good Friday: Lite"?
Little Mintz Sunshine
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 12:04 PM 19/6/08
@Juancho: ...one's great...one's OK. Guess which?
Little Mintz Sunshine
gwendemarco
Posted 1:26 PM 19/6/08
I thought we'd run out of bogus, junior high school, pulled out of fissured asses, lost-a-bet-playing-quarters-at-Evans'-house-so-I-have to-make-it-now ideas last year, but this is such spectacular news!
gwendemarco