“Oh yes, I think we are just going to call it ‘Robin Hood’,” Ridley Scott revealed to MTV very recently about the project formerly known as “Nottingham.” “We start in almost 2 months.”
While Scott does assure that “Robin Hood” is next, he also says he’s always juggling about 10 projects at once. “I am in a constant stage of development. I am liable to do ‘Gucci.’ I am liable to do a thing called ‘Child 44,’ and I am doing ‘Robin Hood’ next.”
At one point the director had said that Russell Crowe would play both Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, but he says he’s since scrapped that idea. “[Crowe as both Robin and the Sheriff of Nottingham] was an idea so far back, way back when at the time I had this proposed to me,” he said of the project’s evolution. “[But] It is better to simply have the evolution of a character called Robin Hood, who will come out of a point in the Crusades which is the end.”
Sienna Miller is out. Mark Strong is onboard and rumors have it that Cate Blanchett will play Maid Marian, but Scott doesn’t address any of that. However, Rumors that Crowe had become too round after “Body Of Lies” (which tied into the ridiculous Sienna Miller-leaving gossip) are something Scott dismisses. “Oh that is silly; all that stuff is bullshit. He is going to be totally fit. That is not a problem at all,” he insists.