Crowe 'linked to Robin Hood film'
Russell Crowe will play the Sheriff of Nottingham in a "revisionist" take on the Robin Hood story, it is reported.
Nottingham will see Crowe's Sheriff investigate a series of murders in which Robin Hood is the main suspect, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
"Part of the strength of the script was the simple idea of doing Robin Hood by making the Sheriff the good guy," writer Ethan Reiff told the paper.
The project was the subject of a heated bidding war between rival studios.
Universal Pictures will make the film, which is expected to begin shooting by the end of the year.
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