Useless Movie Trivia For
Robin Hood
Memorable Movie Quotes
Robin Longstride: If you're building for the future, you need to keep your foundations strong, laws of the land enslave the people to a king who demands loyalty but offers nothing in return, I've been to the South of France, Palestine and back, you build a kingdom the same way you build a cathedral from the ground up!
Robin Longstride: Rise and rise again until lambs become lions.
Trivia
Universal Pictures acquired the rights to Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris's spec script in an aggressive bidding contest with other studios such as New Line Cinema, Warner Bros., Sony, New Regency Enterprises, and DreamWorks.
The production had planned to recreate the Tower of London in Caernarfon, North Wales but later decided on doing the tower digitally.
Before it was announced that Russell Crowe would play Robin Hood, both Christian Bale and Sam Riley were considered for the part.
Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris's original script "Nottingham" turned the traditional story on its head by portraying the Sheriff of Nottingham in a more sympathetic light and Robin Hood as more of a villain. The script was extensively re-written by Brian Helgeland because director Ridley Scott wanted the Sheriff of Nottingham to be a more conflicted character. New rewrites were done by British playwright Paul Webb and later by Tom Stoppard, who reworked the story while the movie was already being filmed.
At 45, Russell Crowe is the oldest actor to have played Robin Hood in a movie. Sean Connery was nearly 45 when he played a veteran Robin Hood in Robin and Marian.
Originally, Russell Crowe was set to play both Robin Hood and Sheriff of Nottingham. The idea was dropped.
In response to criticisms that he was too old to play Robin Hood, Russell Crowe crash dieted before filming began.
Opening film at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival in 2010.
Goofs
The opening of the movies sets it "at the dawn of the 12th century". The year 1199 would be the dawn of the 13th century.
When Robin and his men are on the ship from France to England, they are drinking out of glass goblets. Glass was very expensive, and would never have been used on a ship. Instead, they've have had pewter or wooden drinking vessels.
In reality, Richard died in the arms of his mother, after a wound from an arrow became gangrenous.
When the French king is preparing to land on the English Coast, he is told that they would land in "about 40 minutes". Time was not measured in minutes at that time. The closest they could tell was before mid-day or after mid-day.
In the beginning of the movie, an army of 3000+ men is left to pillage and plunder in France after Richard dies; nothing is ever made mention again of these men in the movie. Yet the French are able to raise an army to invade England while leaving this other British army behind on French land. Where did this French army come from to be able to invade England?
King Richard is shown dying in France during a siege of a castle due to a lucky crossbow shot. This is correct. However, the movie states that this occurred as Richard was on his way home from the Third Crusade circa 1193. In reality, Richard's ship was grounded on the coast of Croatia in 1193, and he and a few knights made their way to Vienna, where Richard was taken prisoner by the Holy Roman Empire. Richard's death was in 1198.
Many of the helmets used by Richard and his knights were of a style 200 years in the future from when the movie was set.
The stone castles are of a style not seen until the reign of John's grandson, Edward Longshanks, and England was not known for its longbow archers until after the time of Edward as well. England got its longbowman from Wales as mercenaries until after the time of Wales' final defeat during the reign of Longshanks.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $200,000,000
Opening Weekend: $36,063,385
Gross: $105,219,735
Filming Locations
Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Bourne Woods, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK
Dovedale, Derbyshire, England, UK
Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
London, England, UK
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK (studio)
Virginia Water, Surrey, England, UK (Boat Scenes)