'The Director's Cut Is the Movie We All Thought We Were Releasing' — Russell Crowe Responds to Robin Hood's 'Unfair' Comparisons to Gladiator, 16 Years Later

Remember the 2010 Robin Hood movie? The 1 directed by Ridley Scott with Russell Crowe successful the rubric role? It struggled astatine the container bureau and reportedly resulted successful a nonaccomplishment during its theatrical release. Now, 16 years later, Crowe has discussed its assorted problems, which weren’t helped by comparisons to Scott and Crowe’s blockbuster Gladiator.

IGN’s Robin Hood movie returned a 5/10. We said: “Robin Hood isn't a atrocious movie. But it is simply a frustrating, profoundly flawed and wholly unnecessary one. Its problems were each connected insubstantial and successful conceptualization not needfully successful execution. The movie ends connected an evident sequel note, but it's arsenic evident that this installment is simply excessively mediocre to ever warrant a sequel. By stripping the communicative of its halfway mythology, this Robin Hood volition permission you wondering however the hellhole this fable has managed to past for truthful galore centuries. Where's the merry successful that?”

Crowe took to societal media to respond to 1 instrumentality who said Robin Hood received “unfair” comparisons to Gladiator, which had been released a decennary prior. The Master and Commander and L.A. Confidential prima said that 17 minutes were chopped for the cinema release, and that the director’s chopped “is the movie we each thought we were releasing.”

“The director's chopped is the movie we each thought we were releasing,” Crowe said. “However, 17 minutes were chopped for the cinema release. A infinitesimal is simply a agelong clip connected screen. Imagine immoderate of your favourite movies with 17 minutes of the astir affectional connective insubstantial removed… ticker the director’s cut.

Then, responding to different instrumentality who said they felt the movie was much than a Robin Hood root story, Crowe agreed, confirming the program was to archer the character’s communicative successful 3 parts.

“That was the idea. To beryllium told successful 3 parts,” Crowe said. “When I started digging successful to RH, I recovered the communicative and its roots successful Greene Man mythology profoundly interesting. The communicative of Robin lasted hundreds of years, how? It was my thought to amusement that RH was a title, passed down, not 1 man.”

Crowe's Robin Hood didn't enactment Hollywood disconnected from making different movies based connected the character. Indeed, different is coming up. Last period we got the archetypal trailer for The Death of Robin Hood, giving america our archetypal look astatine Hugh Jackman, prima of Deadpool & Wolverine, The Greatest Showman, and The Prestige, arsenic the legendary archer.

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