All hands, brace for fangirling!

[annathepiper]

For those of you who haven’t seen this already, here’s the latest trailer for the forthcoming Robin Hood movie. Look for none other than Alan The Doyle, showing up around the 0:54 mark or so–with a line, even!

Is it May yet? Is it May yet? Is it May yet? Also, elf needs icons, BADLY. And desktop backgrounds! And, Big Trailer is Big, so behind the cut it goes!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

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[ssha.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

"We're common archers, Ro..." Eeeeeeee! He looks so .... unpretty! :D I am amused.

I also feel bad for the actor that is playing Nottingham. He's Septimus from Stardust - seems that he is just doomed to always play villians, poor schmoo.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, it totally took me by surprise how much I did not recognize him! Between the beard and his hair being tied back, he looked entirely different, and it took his voice to clue me in that that was in fact him!

Oh, I didn't recognize the dude playing Nottingham, good catch!

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Heh! Doing a little research I discover that I'm not quite right. He isn't Nottingham, he's someone called Sir Godfrey. But it's clear that he's on the villainous side of things and is probably Nottingham's right hand man or some such thing. ;)

[annathepiper]

Oh okay! Yeah, sounds like typecasting is still happening!

[jessicac.livejournal.com]

Yay Cate Blanchett!

[annathepiper]

YES! <3 I'm fangirling her being in this movie almost as hard as I am Alan, and those shots of her getting in on the longbow action are AWESOME.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

How the heck did Alan Doyle get into this movie? Not that I'm complaining, mind you, just slightly boggled.

This looks like it's going to be the first big good popcorn movie of the summer. Yay!

[annathepiper]

I don't know this for a hard fact, but I'm pretty damn sure it can be chalked up to Alan and Russell being best buds!

Russell's been a huge GBS fan for some time now--enough that when he took his band on tour in 2001, they even covered a GBS song. And around 2005 or so he showed up at one of their shows, was welcomed backstage, and he and the B'ys hit it off quite well. Alan produced Russell's last album (and it's hands down the best music Russell's done), and he's an extended member of Russell's current band; in exchange, Russell's actually helped write on the last couple GBS albums. If you check the liner notes on Fortune's Favour, you'll see that Russell's credited as one of the writers for "Company of Fools".

So I'm pretty sure this was a matter of Russell going "oi, mate, wanna be in my movie? I need an Allan a'Dale!" And one presumes that given that Ridley Scott generally doesn't suck as a director and having two Oscar winners of Russell's and Cate Blanchett's caliber in the cast, Alan got judged to have a suitable level of competency at acting to actually be taken on as one of the Merry Men. :) I'm quite looking forward to seeing if, in fact, he can act!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is so cool. Thank you for telling me about that.

Nice to know Russell Crowe, in addition to being one of those actors I'd be happy to watch read the phone book, has such good taste in music!

[annathepiper]

You are welcome!

Yeah, I became a fan of Russell and a fan of GBS totally independently in the same year (2000, just after Gladiator came out), and I about fell over dead when I heard Russell was a GBS fan! And since I actually caught one of his band's shows, I even got to see him do the GBS song: "How Did We Get From Saying I Love You?" Which was ridiculously delightful. <3

I also squealed when I saw Russell's last movie, State of Play, in which he's bellowing along with GBS' own "Paddy Murphy"!

And did I mention Russell's actually shown up a couple of times at GBS shows for a surprise encore? ;)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

[adds State of Play to Netflix queue]

Somehow I managed to miss that one...

And thanks for the YouTube link!

[annathepiper]

"Paddy Murphy" is in Russell's very first scene in the movie, when his character's driving and bellowing along with the music!

But even aside from the GBS cameo, the movie in general is very solid and I do recommend it. If you're up for it though I also recommend the original BBC miniseries version, which is excellent. Since I've seen them both I can say that Russell's version did a decent job adapting the BBC story to a 2-hour, US-based format.

You're very welcome!

[akadriver.livejournal.com]

Damn it. Need the time machine again. I don't want to wait until May to see this!!!

[annathepiper]

Seriously. I would like it NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW.

[sticckler.livejournal.com]

oooh, he gets a line in the trailer now! All the other trailers I've been watching going "oh! there's his forehead! there's the side of his face!" so an actual line is a big step up! Also Cate Blanchett looks amazing in this :)

[annathepiper]

I know! I've been all HOLY CRAP ALAN IS REALLY IN THIS and now we have visual proof! <3

And god yes, Cate looks totally awesome. Right along with a suitable desktop background of Russell and Alan in costume, I totally want one of her brandishing that longbow!