Futurology Films

I have my concerns? Do we need another Robin Hood film? Personally I liked the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner. I thought Alan Rickman played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham perfectly. So why make the film again?

Surely from all the new up and coming film makers brimming with creative ideas that the films money would have been better invested by Universal Pictures in something unique and new.

Instead Ridley Scott takes up the rains and calls in his old pal Russell Crowe to play Robin Hood. And now we all know what to expect; Gladiator in green tights with a bow and arrow.

Also Danny Huston is playing King Richard The Lionheart. Now I’m not very patriotic but an Italian playing one of England’s greatest Kings seems a little wrong to me? All I can see him as is that blood-thirsty vampire in that rubbish vampire film 30 Days of Night. Wasn’t he also in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in fact forget said that, who really cares? Weren’t any English legends like Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis or Michael Caine available? You can imagine it now “My name is... King Richard”…lol!

One saving grace is the fact that the eloquent Kate Blanchett (a fellow Australian like Crowe) is going to play Maid Marian. She replaced the original actress for the role Sienna Miller at the last minute. Phew well they got something right anyway because, lets face it, Sienna has the acting skills better suited for Hollyoaks rather than Hollywood.

The film does have a star studded cast and according to Russell Crowe the films predecessors have apparently relied too much on the "usual clichés" so promises to take a different approach.

Well as they say money talks and the heavy weight muscle behind the film have managed to to make the movies premiere screen on the opening night of the prestigious 2010 Cannes film festival on May 12th.

Well once the movie hits our cinema screens on May 14 I will go check it out for myself, but with big budgets and even bigger cast list I’m not going to hold my breath for a classic epic.