While Olivia Wilde was making the media rounds last Friday, checking in on David Letterman the day after his extortion/infidelity clusterfrak and stopping by MTV News HQ for a chat, she was also getting ready to begin filming "The Next Three Days" in Pittsburgh.
Thankfully for everyone involved, our own Josh Horowitz had no embarrassing personal revelations to make during his time with Olivia, and the two ended up touching on her upcoming film role. Mind you, she didn't tell us much – or anything, really, beyond what has popped up in the trades over the past several months. But the 25-year-old "House" star was simply so lovely as she declared her preference for "playing it safe" when it came to plot details that it's hard for us to complain. Read more...
There isn't a Russell Crowe movie that I won't watch. I confess to not only owning "A Good Year" but watching it multiple times simply because I occasionally need a trip to the French wine-country with a stern Australian. I've already pre-bought my ticket to Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood," and now I can check the calender days off for Crowe's latest, "The Next Three Days."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Days" actually has Crowe taking a break from Universal and his director friend Scott. The actor will team up with Paul Haggis ("Crash") and Lionsgate for this remake of the 2008 French thriller "Pour Elle." Read more...
First I have some news that doesn't need to be linked out. We've got word that Fandango will exclusively be selling tickets on Monday for a special "Twilight"-related event at San Diego Comic-Con. Here are the pertinent details, straight from the announcement:
On Monday, July 20 between 9:00-9:30 a.m. PST, tickets will go on sale exclusively at www.fandango.com for a special San Diego-only event on Thursday, July 23 during the week of Comic-Con. “The TWILIGHT Experience”, a one-night-only special theatrical re-release of global sensation TWILIGHT, featuring an introduction by cast members. Tickets are $10.00 each, with a two tickets-per-person limit. On Monday, tickets may be purchased at the following link: http://www.fandango.com/gaslampstadium_aaeet/theaterpage?date=7/23/2009
So there's that. For now, on to today's Dailies. Read more...
By Josh Wigler
Originally titled "Nottingham," director Ridley Scott's upcoming "Robin Hood" adaptation was previously rumored to star Russell Crowe as both Robin Hood and the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham. While there's still no official word on the Sheriff's casting, a new press release reveals a ton of other information about the film.
According to the announcement, Crowe and the previously revealed Cate Blanchett (Maid Marian) and Alan Doyle (Allan Adayle) will be joined by Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand and Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave. The movie is said to focus on Robin Hood and his merry men as they "protect their country from slipping into bloody civil war." Read more...
By Lindsay Wallace
Recently, it was announced that Alan Doyle -- lead singer of the popular Canadian band Great Big Sea -- had been cast as Allen a-Dale in Ridley Scott's upcoming "Robin Hood" film. We caught up with the frontman soon after, and Doyle was ready to dish on his new role. The film is set to star Russell Crowe as Robin Hood and Cate Blanchett as Lady Marion.
Doyle's character, Allen a-Dale, is one of the Merry Men in the Robin Hood story. "He's a troubadour," exclaimed Doyle. "He's an Irish lute playing balladeer. He's an artist who loves to sing a song. With two or three other guys, Allen a -Dale is one of the Merry Men who's followed Robin Hood for a long time and hopes to continue to do so. Yes, I will be playing the lute in the film." Read more...
Last week MTV News caught up with Ridley Scott, who finally revealed just what was going on with "Nottingham" -- it was now "Robin Hood" with Russell Crowe as the titular archer. Now Robin has found his lady love, as Variety reports that Maid Marian is to be played by the lovely Cate Blanchett.
Scott already told us that his "Robin Hood" would be a fairly traditional one, and the new plot details reveal that it will be an original story that follows the historical period a little closer than Kevin Costner did. The noble Robin of Loxley is abandoned as a child, and finds refuge with the common people of Nottingham. But his abandonment leaves him unwilling to trust in others, until he meets a strong, independent woman named Marian. Read more...
When I caught up with the legendary Ridley Scott last week, I was there to discuss his “Alien” character Ellen Ripley being named one of our “Top 10 Movie Badasses of All Time ."
While I was there, however, I couldn’t resist running over a few other key projects that could become his next classic. “I am in a constant stage of development,” he told me in a conference room of his Scott Free Productions office. “I am liable to do ‘Gucci.’ I am liable to do a thing called ‘Child 44,’ and I am doing ‘Robin Hood’ next.”
That statement is notable, not only in that those first two projects are moving forward, but that “Nottingham” has now officially been renamed to reflect its lead character. “Oh yes, I think we are just going to call it ‘Robin Hood’,” Scott revealed. “We start in almost 2 months.” Read more...
Maybe every generation gets the Robin Hood film they deserve. Apparently I deserved Kevin Costner and Christian Slater hugging as a Bryan Adams song played over the end credits (to be fair, I kind of love that film). And apparently this generation is going to get a Russell Crowe-led re-imagining directed by Ridley Scott (because apparently they can't be apart for more than a couple months).
We've all been gossiping about "Nottingham" for months on end and lately a lot of the chatter has concerned just who Crowe is playing. Scott told us recently that Crowe is playing both Robin Hood and Nottingham which left a few people scratching their heads. It wasn't so confusing in retrospect given what has been reported about the script elsewhere.
But now Brian Grazer has further clarified to MTV News how this dual role thing is going to work AND he even dropped a bit of a bomb about how the beginning of the film plays out. So spoiler-scared folk please go no further. Read more...
No one can ever accuse director Ridley Scott of being stuck in a rut. He's tackled gladiators, love stories, the Crusades, war stories, and political thrillers. Now he's returning to the genre that, arguably, made his name -- science fiction. According to Variety, he is finally in possession of the rights to Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel, "The Forever War."
Scott has wanted to adapt this book for over 20 years, and originally intended it as a follow-up to "Blade Runner" and "Alien." Can you imagine? We would have had a trilogy of Scott sci-fi! Complications ensued when Scott tried to get the rights, but as you can see, he triumphed in the end. Read more...
How do you find an actor of Russell Crowe's caliber to play against him? Well, Ridley Scott seems to have found the answer: let the Oscar winner play both roles! That's right, in one of the odder casting ideas in at least a few days (it just so happens this news comes in the same week Johnny Depp signed on to play Tonto), Crowe is going to play both the sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood himself in Ridley Scott's upcoming flick, "Nottingham."
The news comes straight from the helmer himself, with Scott revealing "He's playing both!" exclusively to MTV News during an interview for his new film "Body of Lies," which co-stars Crowe. While Scott held additional details close to his chest -- saying they would take too long to describe -- he did exclaim that Crowe's dual roles would be "a good old clever adjustment of characters. One becomes the other. It changes." Read more...
