Ridley Scott's still-not-officially-titled Robin Hood has added another name to its already-impressive cast list, with the news that Danny Huston has signed on to play Richard the Lionheart.
Last seen getting his bad guy on as General Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Huston will this time be playing a character who's (traditionally anyway) a good guy in the Robin Hood universe. Richard the Lionheart was the King whose departure for the crusades, and subsequent capture and imprisonment, left the power vacuum filled by the cowardly lion Prince John and the big fat grey wolf the Sheriff of Nottingham (Ed: Some mistake, surely?). This being a reworking of the franchise, it's always possible that the Lionheart's a rather more complex character - as indeed he was in real life.
For a start, he hardly spent any of his life in England, based chiefly in his mother's duchy of Aquitaine in France, so Sean Connery's Scottish accent in Prince of Thieves is dead wrong. Secondly, he was, they reckon, gay, so Patrick Stewart's ladykiller version in Men in Tights is out. And thirdly, as kings go he wasn't much cop, what with the endless crusading and the lack of any real work at home. So maybe the splendidly sinister Huston's a good fit after all (although we'd always seen him as more of a Prince John really).
Robin Hood: Yet To Be Formally, 100% Titled is out on May 14, 2010 in the UK and is still currently filming.
What another random yank playing a great british legend, what next Kevin Kostner as Robin Hood!!! oh wait, that already happened... come on Ridley sort it out, you cant have a guy who looks evil and plays evil as a good guy, no matter what your script is!!!
How about Michael Caine, or Clive Owen a bit left field but English and did ok as King Arthur! ... Read More
How has this happened? A film by a British director about a British folk hero filmed in the UK and yet ALL the good guys are Aussies and Americans and all the baddies are the Brits again. *sigh*
True, the cast looks cool *does a little fangirl cheer for Scott Grimes* but would have been nice to avoid the usual casting cliches.
Oh well. Still excited as its Ridley Scott doing Robin Hood but still....
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Sean Connery wasn't in Prince of Thieves but graced Robin and Marian! Mind you, Costner's U.S. accent was out of place too…
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“Hold I shay! You look radient cousin”
Re watch. Thats him right at the end. You can't miss him really!
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is in my mind the next big fella on the scene i think he's getting there now he's a really good actor and get all creepy when needs be. I like him alot as an actor i think him and Patrick Wilson are really working their way up. ... Read More
I was killing myself laughing at this story on the BBC site. Apparently when saying Danny is the son of John and just giving you a benchmark of who John Huston is - the film to mention is Annie.
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