(NOTE: This post could have been named: “Are Ridley Scott’s Casting Choices Thought-Provoking or Just Plain Lazy?”)
Looks like Russell Crowe will be playing both Robin Hood and his nemesis the Sheriff of Nottingham in Ridley Scott’s upcoming period flick. This will either be incredibly interesting or incredibly gimmicky.
SOME PREDICTIONS:
I’m sure there will be many references to the “duality” of the human conscious in press interviews.
There will be a shot where one of the two Crowe characters sees the other in a mirror.
Lots of unnecessary special effects split screens will be used just because they can.
A small group of fanboys will say this is the best film made since “The Dark Knight.”
Elderly people will hate it as much as they did that “awful Batman movie with the cute young man from that movie with the jousting.”
An alien will pop out of somebody’s stomach.
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October 20, 2008 at 5:40 am
Russell Crowe’s accent seems to be close to Robin Hood’s (or the Sheriff’s) already… though he’ll probably have to get a bit slimmer than what his recent role in Body of Lies