Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman) is the latest notable name to sign on for the upcoming--and not yet titled--Robin Hood remake, which has already started production in the UK.
Hurt will play William Marshall, the Earl of Pembroke, an actual historical figure who was a servant of the Plantagenet Kings, and known as the "greatest knight that ever lived."
Fellow Oscar winner Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) will lend his talents as Robin Hood himself, a folklore figure that's been around for some 600 years. Yet another Oscar alumni, Cate Blanchett, is set to portray Maid Marian, while Robin's "Merry Men" will be played by Kevin Durand (Smokin' Aces), Scott Grimes (Critters), and Alan Doyle, the lead singer for Canadian group Great Big Sea.Emmy-winning feature film director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) will helm the project, which he is producing with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, the Oscar-winning super producer behind films like A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Apollo 13 (1995), and TV shows such as Arrested Development (Fox) and 24 (Fox).
Universal Pictures and Imagine are producing the newest Robin Hood feature adaptation, and the first since Kevin Reynolds' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which grossed more than $225 million worldwide in 1991.
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