Pixie fashion plate Sienna Miller (“Factory Girl”) is set to glam up Maid Marion in Universal Pictures’ reinvention of the classic Robin Hood tale.
Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”) is cast as Robin Hood, but the flick doesn’t revolve around this fabled do-gooder. Instead, the screenplay, written by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, revolves around Hood’s arch nemesis Sheriff of Nottingham.
Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? Old Robin Hood has some mighty socialist ideas, and the Sheriff of Nottingham is the brave lawman that needs to straighten him out. Too bad they also have women problems to sort out.
After both Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood and Cary Elwes’ Robin Hood, the new film has an interesting twist – a love triangle between the dashing Robin Hood and goody-two-shoes Nottingham. What’s a girl, ahem, Maid, to do?
Ridley Scott (“Numb3rs”) sits in the director’s chair while Brian Glazer (“24”) is producing for Imagine Entertainment.
Up next for Miller? “G.I. Joe”, Paramount’s adaptation of the famous Hasbro toy.
The film is scheduled for release in November 2009.
