Nottingham now called Robin Hood

Ridley Scott has been talking to the 'MTV Movies Blog' and has revealed that the once red hot spec script for 'Nottingham' that caused such a bidding war with it's fresh take on the Sherwood legend with Nottingham as more of a good guy detective than evil lawman, is now simply gonna be called 'Robin Hood'.

"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."

In an attempt to clarify all the confusion from a few months ago about Russell Crowe playing multiple roles, Scott was eager to say that he had changed his mind, and that Crowe will simply portray the famed archer who rises from an unlikely background. "Robin Hood is in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion," he said of how we'll find the character early in the film "He is a bowman in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion."

"[Crowe as both Robin and the Sheriff of Nottingham] was an idea so far back, way back when at the time I had this proposed to me, and I read it and thought, 'I don't really know what it does for it, but it's alright'," Scott recalled of the now-abandoned idea. "It is better to simply have the evolution of a character called Robin Hood, who will come out of a point in the Crusades which is the end."

So essentially it's just going to be yet another Robin Hood movie, I actually thought that the revisionist take the original Nottingham spec brought to the table was pretty exciting, the idea of a detective in Sherwood forest and Robin as more of a shady character than usual, now granted a straight Ridley Scott Robin Hood movie sounds way better than that nonsense of Crowe playing both roles, but still, this is all a little underwhelming.

In the interview Ridely also talks about two other projects he has lined up post 'Robin Hood', they are a Gucci biopic and the infinitely more interesting sounding than either of the above, Child 44.