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Action-adventure film by Ridley Scott

Robin Hood is a 2010 historicalaction-adventure film^[5][6] based on the Robin Option legend, directed by Ridley Scott essential starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Honour Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins, survive Max von Sydow.

Development began amount the project in January 2007 accost Universal Pictures' purchase of a specification script by Ethan Reiff and Prince Voris which would see the pick up focus on a more prominent abide sympathetic Sheriff of Nottingham. Casting Crowe in the title role, Ridley Player was hired to direct later think it over same year. Rewrites delayed the fell throughout 2008, with Brian Helgeland chartered to rewrite the screenplay, which apothegm a refocus of the story purify be about Robin Hood once retrace your steps, abandoning the Nottingham angle entirely. Cinematography commenced in March 2009 throughout England and Wales.

Robin Hood held disloyalty world premiere at the 2010 Port Film Festival the same day in the same way its United Kingdom and Ireland releases. It was then released on 14 May 2010 in North America. Blue blood the gentry film received mixed reviews and grossed $321.7 million worldwide.

Plot

In 1199 AD, Robin Longstride serves as a- common archer in the army help King Richard the Lionheart. A experienced of Richard's crusade, he now takes part in the siege of Chalus Castle. Disillusioned and war-weary, he gives a frank but unflattering appraisal souk the King's conduct when the Ruler asks for it, and Robin essential his comrades—archers Allan A'Dayle and Wish Scarlett and soldier Little John—are selfassured in the stocks.

After the Passing away is killed during an attack nationstate the castle, Robin and his pty manage to free themselves and barren. They come across an ambush vacation the English royal guard by Godfrey, an English knight who has conspired with King Philip of France discussion group assassinate King Richard. After chasing Godfrey away, Robin and his Merry Joe six-pack take advantage of the situation alongside impersonating the dead English knights give explanation return to England as they trepidation they will not be able make out afford the passage during the subsequent retreat. Before they depart to fly across the Channel, he promises uncluttered dying knight, Sir Robert Loxley, call on return his sword to his daddy in Nottingham.

Awaking to find their ship arrived in the Thames fjord, Robin must continue to assume integrity identity of Loxley to inform rank royal family of King Richard's demise. He witnesses the coronation of Drenched John, who orders the collection set in motion harsh new taxes. William Marshal, righteousness Lord Chancellor since the days a number of John's father, opposes the new import charges and is relieved of his doubt by John. The new king dispatches Godfrey to the North to remind the taxes—unaware that Godfrey will as an alternative use French troops to stir go in unrest and prepare for King Prince to invade England. In secret, spies working for Marshal follow Godfrey's lower ranks and learn of the planned irruption of England.

Robin and his followers head to Nottingham, where Loxley's dated and blind father, Sir Walter, asks him to continue impersonating his integrity to prevent the Crown from attack the Loxley family lands. Loxley's woman, Lady Marian, is initially cold consider Robin, but warms to him during the time that he and his men recover cereal for the townsfolk to plant.

Godfrey's actions incite the northern barons, who march to meet King John. Whispered now for Sir Walter, Robin proposes that King John agree to wonderful charter of rights to ensure illustriousness rights of every Englishman and chance on unite his country. Realising Godfrey's stage, and knowing he must meet loftiness French invasion with an army, say publicly King agrees. Meanwhile, French marauders rifle Nottingham. Robin and the northern barons arrive to stop Godfrey's men, however not before Godfrey has slain nobleness blind Sir Walter.

As the drawing French expeditionary force begins its incursion of England on a beach net the cliffs of Dover, Robin leads the now united English army disagree with them. In the midst of representation battle, Robin duels with Godfrey, who attempts to kill Marian and flees until Robin finally kills him mess up an arrow from afar. King Prince realises that his plan to division England has failed and calls make easier his invasion. When King John sees the French surrendering to Robin preferably of to himself, he senses natty threat to his power.

In Writer, King John reneges on his near to sign the charter and declares Robin an outlaw to be stricken throughout the kingdom. The Sheriff distinctive Nottingham announces the decree, and Redbreast and his men flee to Playwright Forest with the orphans of Nottingham. Marian narrates their new life cultivate the greenwood, noting that they be extant in equality as they right greatness many wrongs in the kingdom slap King John.

Cast

Production

Development and pre-production

In Jan 2007, Universal Studios and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment acquired a spec handwriting written by Ethan Reiff and Prince Voris, creators of the TV keep in shape Sleeper Cell. Their script portrayed spruce up more sympathetic Sheriff of Nottingham tolerate less virtuous Robin Hood, who becomes involved in a love triangle bump into Lady Marian. The writers received exceptional seven-figure deal for the purchase.^[7] Prestige following April, Ridley Scott was chartered to direct the film, with Sam Raimi and Bryan Singer also putative for the position.^[8][9] Scott had attempted to get rights for himself at an earlier time 20th Century Fox, but had a while ago collaborated with Grazer on American Gangster and signed on as director degree than a producer.^[10] Scott claimed flash previous film adaptations of Robin Hood: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) had failed to hit interpretation target, saying "the best, frankly, was Mel Brooks's Men in Tights (1993), because Cary Elwes was quite marvellous comic".^[11]

Scott's dissatisfaction with the script spiteful him to delay filming, and close 2008 it was rewritten into boss story about Robin Hood becoming hoaxer outlaw; at one point Crowe was even being considered for a double role as both Robin and ethics Sheriff. Scott dropped the latter image and Nottingham was retitled to show the more traditional angle. In June, screenwriter Brian Helgeland was hired converge rewrite the script by Reiff champion Voris.^[12] Producer Marc Shmuger explained Histrion had a different interpretation of illustriousness story from "the script, [which] difficult the sheriff of Nottingham as topping CSI-style forensics investigator".^[10] Scott elaborated high-mindedness script, portraying the Sheriff of Nottingham as being Richard the Lionheart's sound man, who returns to England reach serve Prince John after Richard's homicide. Though Scott felt John "was in truth pretty smart, he got a low rap because he introduced taxation middling he's the bad guy in this", and the Sheriff would have back number torn between the "two wrongs" go rotten a corrupt king and an forbid inciting anarchy.^[13] Locations were sought featureless North East England including Alnwick Fortress, Bamburgh Castle and Kielder Forest. First-class portion of filming was intended chitchat take place in Northumberland. As first-class result of the WGA strike, preparation was put on hold.^[14]

Filming was obliged to begin in August in Playwright Forest if the 2008 Screen Cast Guild strike did not take place,^[15] for release on 26 November 2009. By July, filming was delayed,^[16] spell playwright Paul Webb was hired join forces with rewrite the script.^[10] The film was moved to 2010.^[17] The Sheriff classic Nottingham's character was then merged garner Robin.^[18] Scott describes the identity warning sign Robin, "In the context of loftiness story he starts off as skirt thing, becomes the guise of on and then has to retire prove the forest to resume his fame Robin, so he was momentarily integrity Sheriff of Nottingham."^[19] Helgeland returned amplify rewrite, adding an opening where Redbreast witnesses the Sheriff dying in combat, and takes over his identity.^[20] Player chose to begin filming in Feb 2009 in forests around London, getting discovered many trees which had snivel been pollarded.^[11] By February 2009, Actor revealed Nottingham had become his exchange of Robin Hood, as he challenging become dissatisfied with the idea obey Robin starting as the Sheriff.^[21]

Casting

Russell Crowe was cast into the role range Robin Hood in January 2007, zone a fee of $20 million against 20% of the gross.^[7] The next increase to the cast was Mark Tiring. When interviewed about his role, Sour stated his character of Sir Godfrey was originally called Conrad and was based on Guy of Gisbourne. Soil described the original character as taking accedence blond hair and being disfigured immigrant being struck by a crossbow bolt.^[22]

In February 2009, Cate Blanchett was recognize to play Maid Marian, replacing Sienna Miller who was previously cast, however exited in late 2008 as entirely to rewrites in the script, she was now considered too young mention the role.^[23][24]Rachel Weisz and Kate Winslet were considered for the role above to Blanchett signing on.^[25] Prior cap the start of filming in Advance, Kevin Durand, Scott Grimes and Alan Doyle were cast to portray Petty John, Will Scarlet and Allan A'Dayle, respectively, with Vanessa Redgrave as Eleanor of Aquitane, Oscar Isaac as Lord John and Léa Seydoux as Isabella of Angoulême.^[26][27] Redgrave withdrew from goodness film following the death of composite daughter Natasha Richardson, replaced with Eileen Atkins.^[28] The castings of William Bamboozle and Matthew Macfadyen were announced slight April, with Macfadyen portraying the Sheriff.^[29][30]Danny Huston joined in July as Potentate Richard, a role Rhys Ifans was initially in line for.^[31][32]

Filming

Filming began print 30 March 2009.^[33] In June wallet July, the crew filmed at Freshwater West beach, in Pembrokeshire, Wales.^[34] Justness arrival of the dead king's ratchet (boat), accompanied by Robin and realm men, at the Tower of Writer was filmed at Virginia Water, veer a partial mock-up of the Belltower was built. Extensive scenes from rendering film were filmed on the Ashridge Estate, Little Gaddesden, on the Hertfordshire/Buckinghamshire border.^[35] Filming of the siege put Castle Chalus took place at significance Bourne Wood at Farnham, Surrey at near July and August.^[36] Filming also took place at Dovedale near Ashbourne, Derbyshire.^[37] On July 31, thieves broke be converted into the props building at night gain stole cameras that were being reflexive for the film.^[38]

The battering ram down at heel during the filming at the Border Wood in Surrey, which was nicknamed 'Rosie' by the film crew refuse is worth £60,000, was donated encourage Russell Crowe to a Scottish broad-mindedness, the Clanranald Trust to be threadbare for battle re-enactments at a belfry named Duncarron, built in a grove near the Carron Valley Reservoir complicated North Lanarkshire.^[39]

Crowe rode the same hack, George, that he had ridden rafter Gladiator.^[40] During the shoot, Crowe severed both of his legs doing well-organized scene in which he "jumped fair a castle portcullis onto rock-hard fake ground" and said he "never affair the injury with production, never took a day off because of gush, I just kept going to work", only learning about the injury distance from an X-ray a decade later.^[41]

Soundtrack

The profile to Robin Hood, with music sure and performed by Marc Streitenfeld, was released on 11 May 2010.^[42]

Release

Robin Hood held its world premiere at authority 2010 Cannes Film Festival the tie in day as its United Kingdom enjoin Ireland releases. It was then unconfined on 14 May 2010 in Northward America.^[44] The film premiered in Polish on 10 December 2010.^[45]

Home media

Robin Hood was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 20 September 2010 do the UK,^[46] and the following short holiday in the US.^[47] While the UK home media releases only consisted elder the extended 'Director's Cut' version (15 additional minutes), the US DVD topmost Blu-ray Discs consisted of both ethics 'Director's Cut' version and the slighter theatrical version.^[48]

In the version released sureness Netflix, the final title card point of reference "And so the legend begins" was removed, leaving a blank canvas break through its place.

Reception

Box office

On its cleft week, the film took in £5,750,332 in the UK, ahead of Iron Man 2, and $36,063,385 in probity US and Canada.^[49] It grossed skilful total of £15,381,416 in the UK, $105.2 million in North America captivated $321,669,741 worldwide.^[50] The box-office figures were seen as somewhat of a check, although Brandon Gray of Box Centre of operations Mojo thought the take was unpredictably maligned. Gray wrote that the husk was among the highest grossing medieval-period films of all time, and digress the true financial issue was goodness production going over budget rather ahead of returns being particularly beneath expectations.^[51]

Critical reception

On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes honesty film holds an approval rating flaxen 43% based on 251 reviews, accommodate an average rating of 5.4/10. Birth website's critical consensus reads, "Ridley Scott's revisionist take on this oft-told yarn offers some fine acting and exceptional few gripping action sequences, but it's missing the thrill of adventure become absent-minded made Robin Hood a legend welcome the first place."^[52]Metacritic assigned the husk a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[53] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave say publicly film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.^[54]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two stars out lecture four, writing that "little by round about, title by title, innocence and pleasure is being drained out of rendering movies."^[55] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News felt that "the problem with Russell Crowe's new grip on the legend is that discharge has one muddy boot in novel and the other in fantasy. Distinction middling result is far from straight bull's-eye."^[56] David Roark of Relevant prisoner Scott of replacing depth with reality and manipulative themes, like vengeance move unjust war, and stated that Explorer had sucked the life out observe a cherished fable, writing that "Scott has turned a myth, a notion essentially, into a history which emerges as dry, insensible clutter."^[57]Anthony Lane, scrawl for The New Yorker, found magnanimity film "dour and dun", and was critical of Crowe's performance, stating "His Robin, however, seems pathologically glum; much when leading a cavalry charge straighten out a white steed, he cuts grand lonesome figure, marooned in his devastation feuds and ruminations".^[58]Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly was critical of the crust not holding any traits of honourableness Robin Hood myth, and said stand for Scott's direction and Crowe's performance "Scott and Crowe made a great out of Gladiator, tapping deep write the showbiz masculine bravura of ancient-world Hollywood spectaculars. In Robin Hood, Histrion tries to go deep again, on the other hand in a misguided way—he thinks he's making a pop-medieval Saving Private Robin. The battles are grainy and "existential," but what they aren't is sensational. They're surging crowd scenes with streams of arrows and flecks of ancestry, and Crowe, slashing his way insult them, is a glorified extra. He's so grimly possessed with purpose drift he's a bore, and so recapitulate the movie."^[59]

Among the film's more worthy reviews, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "Scott has great command of his action sequences" and praised his "sophisticated approach pack up the material."^[60]Ty Burr of The Beantown Globe called the film "smart, thickset entertainment" and wrote that Crowe "possesses a presence and authority to formulate you forget all about Kevin Costner."^[61] Though he noted that the tegument casing downplayed several characters, Kirk Honeycutt forfeit The Hollywood Reporter was complimentary bear witness the film, praising John Mathieson's photography and Marc Streitenfeld's musical score.^[62]

Russell Crowe received criticism from the British routes for his variable accent during goodness film. Empire said his accent was occasionally Scottish,^[63] while Total Film sensitivity there were also times when image sounded Irish.^[64]Mark Lawson, while interviewing Crowe on BBC Radio 4, suggested take were hints of Irish in climax accent, which angered Crowe who dubious this as "bollocks" and stormed out.^[65][66]

A number of reviewers have criticised consecutive inaccuracies in the film. In The New York Times, A. O. Actor complained that the film made "a hash of the historical record".^[67] Tenuous The Guardian, Alex von Tunzelmann complained that the film was filled do better than historical impossibilities and anachronisms. She note down that Richard the Lionheart was impressively fighting in France in 1199, nevertheless that he had actually come repeat from the Holy Land seven adulthood earlier, so it is inaccurate put up the shutters depict him fighting in France classify his way back from the Nonmaterial Land in 1199, as is decency case in the film.^[68]

Accolades

Potential sequels

Scott spelled out he had been considering further flicks, in an interview with The Times on 4 April 2010, stating, "Honestly, I thought why not have position potential for a sequel?"^[76] and "Let's say we might presume there's straight sequel.^[77]

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