May 1st, 2007 at 16:30 by Stuart Heritage
When Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe made Gladiator together they caused a sensation - and now they re planning to try and repeat the success with bloodthirsty ancient Rome replaced by a damp forest in the East Midlands near where they make bikes.
Nottingham, the Russell Crowe vehicle that reimagines the Robin Hood myth with the Sheriff Of Nottingham as the hero, now has a director in the shape of Ridley Scott. The signing of Ridley Scott has made Nottingham into a potentially huge movie, with everyone who has ever seen Gladiator busting with excitement and the four people who saw A Good Year shrieking with the kind of panicked terror that only those who have seen Russell Crowe try and climb out of an usually deep French swimming pool in a funny way can truly understand.
Judging by the people attached to it, Nottingham looks like it ll need to be a very important film. , has suffered disappointing turn-outs for every film he s made over the last six years - to the point where cinema chains started - and the city of Nottingham could do with a tourism boom, what with it being a total shithole and all.
And now Ridley Scott has signed on to direct Nottingham, the movie that will see the Sheriff Of Nottingham recast as a hard-working cop with a corrupt boss taking on a gang of thugs, as Metro reports:
Ridley Scott has been signed up to direct Russell Crowe in a revisionist take on Robin Hood, according to reports.
Variety says the Oscar-nominated director will be behind the camera on Nottingham, with 43-year-old Russell taking the lead role as the Sheriff of the city.
And Ridley Scott needs a hit just as badly as anyone else. A Good Year vanished without trace, and Matchstick Men will go down in history as one of the many Nicolas Cage films sadly not featuring any bear-dressed woman-punching.
But at least Brian Grazer from 24, Arrested Development, A Beautiful Mind and Kindergarten Cop will be producing to keep everyone in line.
It goes without saying that Nottingham might suffer from the creative input of three powerhouses like Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott and Brian Grazer, but even it does we ll still go and watch it - not least because that way it ll be a windswept epic about the time that the Sheriff Of Nottingham got so angry that he smashed Friar Tuck before opening a silver briefcase, torturing him for a bit and then telling a few clever jokes that .
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